How To Install kactivities-bin on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kactivities-bin on Kali Linux.

What is kactivities-bin

kactivities-bin is:

kactivities-cli is a command line tool to interact with KActivities or for help with shell completion.

There are three methods to install kactivities-bin 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 kactivities-bin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kactivities-bin

Install kactivities-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kactivities-bin

Install kactivities-bin 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 kactivities-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kactivities-bin

How To Uninstall kactivities-bin on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the kactivities-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kactivities-bin

Uninstall kactivities-bin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kactivities-bin

Remove kactivities-bin Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kactivities-bin

Remove kactivities-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kactivities-bin

Dependencies

kactivities-bin have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libkf5activities5
• libqt5core5a
• libstdc++6

References

• kactivities-bin website

Summary

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