How To Install gwaterfall on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gwaterfall on Kali Linux.

What is gwaterfall

gwaterfall is:

This program facilitates comparison of various fonts and font rendering parameters.

It displays sample lines of text in sizes from 5 to 36px simultaneously and allows changing of font size range and increment, hinting, autohinting, anti-aliasing, subpixel smoothing, and aspect, immediately showing the changes on the screen. All Unicode characters are divided into blocks of 128 characters, and user can choose block of 128 characters to use as sample line of text.

There are three methods to install gwaterfall 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 gwaterfall Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gwaterfall

Install gwaterfall Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gwaterfall

Install gwaterfall 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 gwaterfall using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gwaterfall

How To Uninstall gwaterfall on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gwaterfall

Uninstall gwaterfall And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gwaterfall

Remove gwaterfall Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gwaterfall

Remove gwaterfall configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gwaterfall

Dependencies

gwaterfall have the following dependencies:

• libatk1.0-0
• libc6
• libcairo2
• libfontconfig1
• libfreetype6
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-0
• libpango-1.0-0
• libpangocairo-1.0-0
• libpangoft2-1.0-0
• libxft2

References

• gwaterfall website

Summary

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