How To Install gfm on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is gfm

gfm is:

The GFM is an application allowing to manipulate single/group/tigroup files of all Texas Instruments hand-helds. It can create a new file, open an existing file, save file, rename variables, remove variables, create folders, group files into a group/tigroup file, ungroup a group/tigroup file into single files.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gfm

Install gfm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gfm

Install gfm 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 gfm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gfm

How To Uninstall gfm on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gfm

Uninstall gfm And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gfm

Remove gfm Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gfm

Remove gfm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gfm

Dependencies

gfm have the following dependencies:

• libatk1.0-0
• libc6
• libcairo2
• libfontconfig1
• libfreetype6
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
• libglade2-0

References

• gfm website

Summary

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