How To Install budgie-desktop on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install budgie-desktop on Kali Linux.
What is budgie-desktop
Budgie-Desktop is a GTK+ based desktop environment which focuses on simplicity and elegance. It provides a traditional desktop metaphor based interface utilising customisable panel based menu driven system. Budgie-Desktop is written from scratch utilising many GNOME based sub-systems such as GNOME-Session and Mutter.
This package installs the minimal GNOME based package-set together with the key budgie-desktop packages to produce a working desktop environment.
There are three ways to install budgie-desktop on Kali Linux . We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install budgie-desktop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install budgie-desktop using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install budgie-desktop
Install budgie-desktop Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install budgie-desktop using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install budgie-desktop
Install budgie-desktop Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install budgie-desktop using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install budgie-desktop
How To Uninstall budgie-desktop on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the budgie-desktop package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove budgie-desktop
Uninstall budgie-desktop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall budgie-desktop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove budgie-desktop
Remove budgie-desktop Configurations and Data
To remove budgie-desktop configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge budgie-desktop
Remove budgie-desktop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove budgie-desktop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge budgie-desktop
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install budgie-desktop using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.