How To Install gnome-software on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-software
on Kali Linux.
What is gnome-software
gnome-software is:
Software lets you install and update applications and system extensions.
Software uses a plugin architecture to separate the frontend from the technologies that are used underneath. Currently, a PackageKit plugin provides data from a number of traditional packaging systems, such as rpm or apt. An appdata plugin provides additional metadata from locally installed data in the appdata format.
There are three methods to install gnome-software
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-software Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-software
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install gnome-software Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-software
using apt
by running the following command:
Install gnome-software 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 gnome-software
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall gnome-software on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the gnome-software
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall gnome-software And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-software
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove gnome-software Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-software
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove gnome-software configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-software
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
gnome-software have the following dependencies:
- appstream
- apt-config-icons
- gnome-software-common
- gsettings-desktop-schemas
- libgtk3-perl
- packagekit
- software-properties-gtk
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libappstream-glib8
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfwupd2
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgspell-1-2
- libgtk-3-0
- libgudev-1.0-0
- libjson-glib-1.0-0
- libmalcontent-0-0
- libpackagekit-glib2-18
- libpolkit-gobject-1-0
- libsoup2.4-1
- libxmlb1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-software
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.