How To Install gir1.2-freedesktop on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gir1.2-freedesktop on Kali Linux.

What is gir1.2-freedesktop

gir1.2-freedesktop is:

GObject Introspection is a project for providing machine readable introspection data of the API of C libraries. This introspection data can be used in several different use cases, for example automatic code generation for bindings, API verification and documentation generation.

GObject Introspection contains tools to generate and handle the introspection data.

This package contains small pieces of introspection data for the Cairo, FontConfig, FreeType, GL, and some XOrg libraries. They are distributed in this package temporarily, while the original sources do not include support for GObject Introspection. They are far from complete and only include what is necessary for other introspection packages to work properly.

There are three methods to install gir1.2-freedesktop 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 gir1.2-freedesktop Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gir1.2-freedesktop using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gir1.2-freedesktop

Install gir1.2-freedesktop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gir1.2-freedesktop using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gir1.2-freedesktop

Install gir1.2-freedesktop 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 gir1.2-freedesktop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gir1.2-freedesktop

How To Uninstall gir1.2-freedesktop on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gir1.2-freedesktop package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gir1.2-freedesktop

Uninstall gir1.2-freedesktop And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gir1.2-freedesktop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gir1.2-freedesktop

Remove gir1.2-freedesktop Configurations and Data

To remove gir1.2-freedesktop configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gir1.2-freedesktop

Remove gir1.2-freedesktop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gir1.2-freedesktop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gir1.2-freedesktop

Dependencies

gir1.2-freedesktop have the following dependencies:

• gir1.2-glib-2.0

References

• gir1.2-freedesktop website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gir1.2-freedesktop package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.