How To Install gcompris on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gcompris
on Kali Linux.
What is gcompris
gcompris is:
GCompris is a high quality educational software suite, including a large number of activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.
This is a transitional package that depends on the new series of GCompris releases (rewritten using Qt). It can be safely removed once gcompris-qt is installed.
There are three methods to install gcompris
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 gcompris Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gcompris
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gcompris
Install gcompris Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gcompris
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gcompris
Install gcompris 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 gcompris
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gcompris
How To Uninstall gcompris on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the gcompris
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gcompris
Uninstall gcompris And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gcompris
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gcompris
Remove gcompris Configurations and Data
To remove gcompris
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gcompris
Remove gcompris configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gcompris
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gcompris
Dependencies
gcompris have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gcompris
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.