How To Install compiz-plugins-main on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install compiz-plugins-main
on Kali Linux.
What is compiz-plugins-main
compiz-plugins-main 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 the primary and most well tested set of plugins from the compiz project.
There are three methods to install compiz-plugins-main
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-main Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install compiz-plugins-main
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install compiz-plugins-main Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install compiz-plugins-main
using apt
by running the following command:
Install compiz-plugins-main 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 compiz-plugins-main
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall compiz-plugins-main on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the compiz-plugins-main
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall compiz-plugins-main And Its Dependencies
To uninstall compiz-plugins-main
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove compiz-plugins-main Configurations and Data
To remove compiz-plugins-main
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove compiz-plugins-main configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove compiz-plugins-main
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
compiz-plugins-main have the following dependencies:
- libatspi2.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libdbus-1-3
- libgcc-s1
- libglib2.0-0
- libglu1-mesa
- libjpeg62-turbo
- libnotify4
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libstdc++6
- libx11-6
- libxfixes3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install compiz-plugins-main
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.