How To Install fdpowermon-icons on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fdpowermon-icons on Kali Linux.

What is fdpowermon-icons

fdpowermon-icons is:

fdpowermon is a simple perl script that installs an icon in a system tray compatible with the freedesktop.org specification.

By default, it uses an icon set from the ‘oxygen’ icon theme. However, that icon theme is fairly large (several tens of megabytes), which is a waste if the oxygen-icon-theme package is not installed for other reasons. Therefore, this package contains just those icons from the oxygen-icon-theme package that are needed by fdpowermon, and nothing more.

There are three methods to install fdpowermon-icons 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 fdpowermon-icons Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fdpowermon-icons

Install fdpowermon-icons Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fdpowermon-icons

Install fdpowermon-icons 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 fdpowermon-icons using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fdpowermon-icons

How To Uninstall fdpowermon-icons on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the fdpowermon-icons package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fdpowermon-icons

Uninstall fdpowermon-icons And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fdpowermon-icons

Remove fdpowermon-icons Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fdpowermon-icons

Remove fdpowermon-icons configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fdpowermon-icons

Dependencies

fdpowermon-icons have the following dependencies:

References

• fdpowermon-icons website

Summary

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