How To Install gelemental on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gelemental on Kali Linux.

What is gelemental

gelemental is:

gElemental is a GTK+ periodic table viewer that provides detailed information about chemical elements.

It features a table view which allows the elements to be coloured thematically by several properties, a sortable list view and an element properties dialog, displaying a variety of information, including historical, thermodynamic, electrochemical, and crystallographic properties.

This package contains the main application.

There are three methods to install gelemental 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 gelemental Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gelemental

Install gelemental Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gelemental using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gelemental

Install gelemental 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 gelemental using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gelemental

How To Uninstall gelemental on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gelemental package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gelemental

Uninstall gelemental And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gelemental

Remove gelemental Configurations and Data

To remove gelemental configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gelemental

Remove gelemental configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gelemental

Dependencies

gelemental have the following dependencies:

• libatkmm-1.6-1v5
• libc6
• libelemental0
• libgcc1

References

• gelemental website

Summary

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