How To Install glabels on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glabels
on Kali Linux.
What is glabels
glabels is:
gLabels is a lightweight program for creating labels, barcodes, business cards and media covers for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to work with various laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card sheets that you’ll find at most office supply stores.
gLabels also supports mail merge from sources such as CSV files, vCards and Evolution data servers.
There are three methods to install glabels
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 glabels Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install glabels
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install glabels Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install glabels
using apt
by running the following command:
Install glabels 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.
After updating apt database, We can install glabels
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall glabels on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the glabels
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall glabels And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glabels
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove glabels Configurations and Data
To remove glabels
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove glabels configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glabels
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
glabels have the following dependencies:
- dpkg
- glabels-data
- barcode
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libebook-1.2-20
- libebook-contacts-1.2-3
- libedataserver-1.2-25
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libiec16022-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libqrencode4
- librsvg2-2
- libxml2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glabels
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.