How To Install fbpanel on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fbpanel
on Kali Linux.
What is fbpanel
fbpanel is:
FBPanel is a spinoff of the fspanel (f***ing small panel) with more eye candy. It provides a taskbar (list of all opened windows), desktop switcher, launchbar, clock, is EWMH/NETWM compliant, and has modest resource usage.
There are three methods to install fbpanel
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 fbpanel Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fbpanel
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fbpanel
Install fbpanel Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fbpanel
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fbpanel
Install fbpanel 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 fbpanel
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fbpanel
How To Uninstall fbpanel on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the fbpanel
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fbpanel
Uninstall fbpanel And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fbpanel
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fbpanel
Remove fbpanel Configurations and Data
To remove fbpanel
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fbpanel
Remove fbpanel configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fbpanel
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fbpanel
Dependencies
fbpanel have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fbpanel
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.