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.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install glabels

Install glabels Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install glabels

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.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install glabels

How To Uninstall glabels on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove glabels

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:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove glabels

Remove glabels Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge glabels

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:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glabels

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

• glabels website

Summary

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