How To Install firefox-esr on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firefox-esr
on Kali Linux.
What is firefox-esr
firefox-esr is:
Firefox ESR is a powerful, extensible web browser with support for modern web application technologies.
There are three methods to install firefox-esr
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 firefox-esr Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install firefox-esr
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install firefox-esr Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install firefox-esr
using apt
by running the following command:
Install firefox-esr 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 firefox-esr
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall firefox-esr on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the firefox-esr
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall firefox-esr And Its Dependencies
To uninstall firefox-esr
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove firefox-esr Configurations and Data
To remove firefox-esr
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove firefox-esr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove firefox-esr
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
firefox-esr have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libdbus-1-3
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libevent-2.1-7
- libffi7
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgcc-s1
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libnspr4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firefox-esr
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.