How To Install clamtk on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clamtk on Kali Linux.

What is clamtk

clamtk is:

ClamTk is a graphical front-end for Clam Antivirus.

It is designed to be an easy-to-use, lightweight, on-demand antivirus scanner for Linux systems.

Context menu support for KDE’s Plasma Desktop (Dolphin file manager) and Nemo and Thunar sendto is included. Context menu support for GNOME (Nautilus file manager), but due to additional dependencies required, it is in a separate package: clamtk-gnome.

There are three methods to install clamtk 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 clamtk Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install clamtk using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install clamtk

Install clamtk Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install clamtk using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install clamtk

Install clamtk 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 clamtk using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install clamtk

How To Uninstall clamtk on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the clamtk package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove clamtk

Uninstall clamtk And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove clamtk

Remove clamtk Configurations and Data

To remove clamtk configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge clamtk

Remove clamtk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove clamtk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clamtk

Dependencies

clamtk have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• clamtk website

Summary

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