How To Install imagination-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install imagination-common on Kali Linux.

What is imagination-common

imagination-common is:

Imagination is a lightweight and user-friendly DVD slide show maker with a clean interface and few dependencies. It only requires the ffmpeg encoder to produce a movie to be burned with another application.

This package contains architecture independent files such as icons, pixmaps, documentation, and translations.

There are three methods to install imagination-common 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 imagination-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install imagination-common

Install imagination-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install imagination-common

Install imagination-common 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 imagination-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install imagination-common

How To Uninstall imagination-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the imagination-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove imagination-common

Uninstall imagination-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove imagination-common

Remove imagination-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge imagination-common

Remove imagination-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imagination-common

Dependencies

imagination-common have the following dependencies:

References

• imagination-common website

Summary

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