How To Install cinnamon-settings-daemon on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-settings-daemon
on Kali Linux.
What is cinnamon-settings-daemon
cinnamon-settings-daemon is:
This package contains the daemon which is responsible for setting the various parameters of a Cinnamon session and the applications that run under it. It handles the following kinds of settings:
- Keyboard: layout, accessibility options, shortcuts, media keys
- Clipboard management
- Theming: background, icons, GTK+ applications
- Cleanup of unused files
- Mouse: cursors, speed, accessibility options
- Startup of other daemons: screensaver, sound daemon
- Typing break
It also sets various application settings through X resources and freedesktop.org XSETTINGS.
There are three methods to install cinnamon-settings-daemon
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 cinnamon-settings-daemon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install cinnamon-settings-daemon
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install cinnamon-settings-daemon Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install cinnamon-settings-daemon
using apt
by running the following command:
Install cinnamon-settings-daemon 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.
After updating apt database, We can install cinnamon-settings-daemon
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall cinnamon-settings-daemon on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cinnamon-settings-daemon
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall cinnamon-settings-daemon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cinnamon-settings-daemon
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove cinnamon-settings-daemon Configurations and Data
To remove cinnamon-settings-daemon
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove cinnamon-settings-daemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cinnamon-settings-daemon
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
cinnamon-settings-daemon have the following dependencies:
- cinnamon-desktop-data
- python3-tinycss
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- gir1.2-cvc-1.0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libcanberra-gtk3-0
- libcanberra0
- libcinnamon-desktop4
- libcolord2
- libcups2
- libcvc0
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libfontconfig1
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgnomekbd8
- libgtk-3-0
- libgudev-1.0-0
- liblcms2-2
- libnotify4
- libnspr4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-settings-daemon
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.