How To Install budgie-sntray-plugin on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install budgie-sntray-plugin on Kali Linux.

What is budgie-sntray-plugin

budgie-sntray-plugin is:

Plugin for xfce4-panel to show StatusNotifierItems (also known as AppIndicators). Based on ValaPanel`s StatusNotifier and xfce4-snw-plugin by equiem.

Budgie panel applet version of the plugin.

There are three methods to install budgie-sntray-plugin 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-sntray-plugin 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-sntray-plugin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install budgie-sntray-plugin

Install budgie-sntray-plugin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install budgie-sntray-plugin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install budgie-sntray-plugin

Install budgie-sntray-plugin Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux 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-sntray-plugin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install budgie-sntray-plugin

How To Uninstall budgie-sntray-plugin on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the budgie-sntray-plugin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove budgie-sntray-plugin

Uninstall budgie-sntray-plugin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall budgie-sntray-plugin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove budgie-sntray-plugin

Remove budgie-sntray-plugin Configurations and Data

To remove budgie-sntray-plugin configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge budgie-sntray-plugin

Remove budgie-sntray-plugin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove budgie-sntray-plugin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge budgie-sntray-plugin

Dependencies

budgie-sntray-plugin have the following dependencies:

• xfce4-sntray-plugin-common
• libbudgie-plugin0
• libc6
• libcairo2
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk-3-0
• libpango-1.0-0
• libpeas-1.0-0

References

• budgie-sntray-plugin website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install budgie-sntray-plugin package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.