How To Install compiz-boxmenu on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install compiz-boxmenu on Kali Linux.
What is compiz-boxmenu
Boxmenu provides a number of different menus to the compositing window manager Compiz and possibly to other window managers as well.
It is composed of a daemon that caches the different menus from various sources, following desktop standards and a number of clients to ask the daemon for a specific type of menu, clients that can be bound to different key-chords and mouse events using the Compizconfig Settings Manager.
The components are compiz-boxmenu, compiz-boxmenu-editor, a menu editor and compiz-boxmenu-{daemon,dlist,dplist,vplist,wlist}, where the specialized clients are respectively for recent documents, desktops, viewports and windows.
There are three ways to install compiz-boxmenu 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 compiz-boxmenu Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install compiz-boxmenu using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install compiz-boxmenu
Install compiz-boxmenu Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install compiz-boxmenu using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install compiz-boxmenu
Install compiz-boxmenu 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 compiz-boxmenu using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install compiz-boxmenu
How To Uninstall compiz-boxmenu on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the compiz-boxmenu package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove compiz-boxmenu
Uninstall compiz-boxmenu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall compiz-boxmenu and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove compiz-boxmenu
Remove compiz-boxmenu Configurations and Data
To remove compiz-boxmenu configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge compiz-boxmenu
Remove compiz-boxmenu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove compiz-boxmenu configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge compiz-boxmenu
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install compiz-boxmenu using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.