How To Install compiz-plugins-experimental on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install compiz-plugins-experimental
on Kali Linux.
What is compiz-plugins-experimental
compiz-plugins-experimental is:
Compiz Reloaded is the result of the re-unification of the Beryl-project and the community around the Compiz Window Manager. It seeks to provide an easy and fun-to-use windowing environment, allowing use of the graphics hardware to provide impressive effects, amazing speed and unrivalled usefulness
This package provides an extended collection of plugins, which have received the least amount of review and are the most likely to be problematic and unstable on your system.
There are three methods to install compiz-plugins-experimental
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-plugins-experimental 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-plugins-experimental
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install compiz-plugins-experimental
Install compiz-plugins-experimental Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install compiz-plugins-experimental
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install compiz-plugins-experimental
Install compiz-plugins-experimental 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 compiz-plugins-experimental
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install compiz-plugins-experimental
How To Uninstall compiz-plugins-experimental on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the compiz-plugins-experimental
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove compiz-plugins-experimental
Uninstall compiz-plugins-experimental And Its Dependencies
To uninstall compiz-plugins-experimental
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove compiz-plugins-experimental
Remove compiz-plugins-experimental Configurations and Data
To remove compiz-plugins-experimental
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge compiz-plugins-experimental
Remove compiz-plugins-experimental configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove compiz-plugins-experimental
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge compiz-plugins-experimental
Dependencies
compiz-plugins-experimental have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libcurl4
- libgcc-s1
- libgl1
- libglew2.1
- libglu1-mesa
- libstdc++6
- libx11-6
- libxext6
- libxss1
- compiz-core-abiversion-20180927
- compiz-plugins-main
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install compiz-plugins-experimental
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.