How To Install empathy-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install empathy-common on Kali Linux.

What is empathy-common

empathy-common is:

Instant messaging program supporting text, voice, video, file transfers and inter-application communication over many different protocols, including: AIM, Windows Live (MSN), Google Talk (Jabber/XMPP), Yahoo!, Salut, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise and ICQ.

This package contains the architecture independent files for Empathy IM application.

There are three methods to install empathy-common 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 empathy-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install empathy-common

Install empathy-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install empathy-common

Install empathy-common 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 empathy-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install empathy-common

How To Uninstall empathy-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the empathy-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove empathy-common

Uninstall empathy-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove empathy-common

Remove empathy-common Configurations and Data

To remove empathy-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge empathy-common

Remove empathy-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge empathy-common

Dependencies

empathy-common have the following dependencies:

References

• empathy-common website

Summary

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