How To Install glowing-bear on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glowing-bear on Kali Linux.

What is glowing-bear

glowing-bear is:

Glowing Bear is a web frontend for the WeeChat IRC client and strives to be a modern interface.

It relies on WeeChat to do all the heavy lifting and then provides some nice features on top of that, like embedding images, videos, and other content.

The best part, however, is that you can use it from any modern internet device – whether it’s a computer, tablet, or smartphone – and all your stuff is there, wherever you are.

There are three methods to install glowing-bear 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 glowing-bear Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install glowing-bear

Install glowing-bear Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install glowing-bear

Install glowing-bear 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 glowing-bear using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install glowing-bear

How To Uninstall glowing-bear on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the glowing-bear package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove glowing-bear

Uninstall glowing-bear And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove glowing-bear

Remove glowing-bear Configurations and Data

To remove glowing-bear configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge glowing-bear

Remove glowing-bear configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glowing-bear

Dependencies

glowing-bear have the following dependencies:

• libjs-angularjs
• libjs-bootstrap
• libjs-emojione
• libjs-underscore
• libjs-favico.js
• libjs-katex
• node-pako

References

• glowing-bear website

Summary

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