How To Install gnome-boxes on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-boxes on Kali Linux.
What is gnome-boxes
gnome-boxes is:
GNOME Boxes is a desktop client to view or use local virtual machines, remote physical machines, or remote virtual machines. Boxes is intentionally simple and easy to use.
Hardware virtualization is required to use local virtual machines.
There are three methods to install gnome-boxes 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 gnome-boxes Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gnome-boxes using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-boxesInstall gnome-boxes Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gnome-boxes using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-boxesInstall gnome-boxes 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gnome-boxes using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-boxesHow To Uninstall gnome-boxes on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the gnome-boxes package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-boxesUninstall gnome-boxes And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-boxes and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-boxesRemove gnome-boxes Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-boxes configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-boxesRemove gnome-boxes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-boxes configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-boxesDependencies
gnome-boxes have the following dependencies:
- genisoimage
- libosinfo-bin
- libvirt-daemon
- tracker
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libarchive13
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfreerdp2-2
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libgtk-vnc-2.0-0
- libgtksourceview-4-0
- libgudev-1.0-0
- libhandy-0.0-0
- libosinfo-1.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libsecret-1-0
- libsoup2.4-1
- libspice-client-glib-2.0-8
- libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5
- libtracker-sparql-2.0-0
- libusb-1.0-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-boxes package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
