How To Install gnome-software-plugin-snap on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-software-plugin-snap on Kali Linux.

What is gnome-software-plugin-snap

gnome-software-plugin-snap 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.

This package contains the Snap plugin.

There are three methods to install gnome-software-plugin-snap 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-plugin-snap Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gnome-software-plugin-snap using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-software-plugin-snap

Install gnome-software-plugin-snap Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gnome-software-plugin-snap using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gnome-software-plugin-snap

Install gnome-software-plugin-snap 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 gnome-software-plugin-snap using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gnome-software-plugin-snap

How To Uninstall gnome-software-plugin-snap on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gnome-software-plugin-snap package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnome-software-plugin-snap

Uninstall gnome-software-plugin-snap And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gnome-software-plugin-snap and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-software-plugin-snap

Remove gnome-software-plugin-snap Configurations and Data

To remove gnome-software-plugin-snap configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-software-plugin-snap

Remove gnome-software-plugin-snap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gnome-software-plugin-snap configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-software-plugin-snap

Dependencies

gnome-software-plugin-snap have the following dependencies:

• gnome-software
• snapd
• libappstream-glib8
• libc6
• libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk-3-0
• libjson-glib-1.0-0
• libpolkit-gobject-1-0
• libsnapd-glib1
• libsoup2.4-1

References

• gnome-software-plugin-snap website

Summary

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