How To Install games-thumbnails on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install games-thumbnails on Kali Linux.

What is games-thumbnails

games-thumbnails is:

This package contains thumbnails of different games in Debian. The images intend to show something visually representative from the game, and are derived from real screenshots. They are stored in .png and .jpg graphic formats with a 320x240 pixels resolution.

There are three methods to install games-thumbnails 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 games-thumbnails Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install games-thumbnails

Install games-thumbnails Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install games-thumbnails

Install games-thumbnails 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 games-thumbnails using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install games-thumbnails

How To Uninstall games-thumbnails on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the games-thumbnails package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove games-thumbnails

Uninstall games-thumbnails And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove games-thumbnails

Remove games-thumbnails Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge games-thumbnails

Remove games-thumbnails configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge games-thumbnails

Dependencies

games-thumbnails have the following dependencies:

References

• games-thumbnails website

Summary

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