How To Install icewm-experimental on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm-experimental on Kali Linux.

What is icewm-experimental

icewm-experimental is:

IceWm is a Window Manager for X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif. It tries to take the best features of the above systems. Additional features include multiple workspaces, opaque move/resize, task bar, window list, mailbox status, digital clock.

This package sometimes provides special IceWm versions with experimental features enabled. When the configurations of the packages do not diverge it simply enforces an upgrade to the current icewm package.

There are three methods to install icewm-experimental 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 icewm-experimental Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install icewm-experimental

Install icewm-experimental Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install icewm-experimental

Install icewm-experimental 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 icewm-experimental using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install icewm-experimental

How To Uninstall icewm-experimental on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the icewm-experimental package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove icewm-experimental

Uninstall icewm-experimental And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove icewm-experimental

Remove icewm-experimental Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge icewm-experimental

Remove icewm-experimental configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icewm-experimental

Dependencies

icewm-experimental have the following dependencies:

• icewm
• icewm-common

References

• icewm-experimental website

Summary

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