How To Install education-desktop-mate on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install education-desktop-mate on Kali Linux.

What is education-desktop-mate

education-desktop-mate is:

This metapackage depends on various MATE office and desktop applications that are useful for teachers and their students.

There are three methods to install education-desktop-mate 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 education-desktop-mate Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install education-desktop-mate

Install education-desktop-mate Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install education-desktop-mate using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install education-desktop-mate

Install education-desktop-mate 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 education-desktop-mate using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install education-desktop-mate

How To Uninstall education-desktop-mate on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the education-desktop-mate package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove education-desktop-mate

Uninstall education-desktop-mate And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove education-desktop-mate

Remove education-desktop-mate Configurations and Data

To remove education-desktop-mate configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge education-desktop-mate

Remove education-desktop-mate configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove education-desktop-mate configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge education-desktop-mate

Dependencies

education-desktop-mate have the following dependencies:

• education-tasks

References

• education-desktop-mate website

Summary

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