How To Install kbdd on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is kbdd

kbdd is:

KBDD stands for keyboard daemon. It is a simple keyboard layout switching program, which is designed to run in an X11 session and remember keyboard layouts on a per-window basis. That can be very handy for a user of a non-US keyboard who does not want to jump through layouts back and forth while typing in terminals (mostly in latin) and some kind of chat (in native language). Another useful thing about KBDD is its D-Bus notification support ?? it can emit signals on layout change, thus, making it possible to create layout indicator widgets in such window managers as awesome, for example.

Users of popular desktop environments such as GNOME or KDE most likely do not need this package, as a similar functionality should be already available within their environment. This package may be of interest, however, for the users of tiling or dynamic window managers such as dwm or awesome.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kbdd

Install kbdd Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kbdd

Install kbdd 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 kbdd using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kbdd

How To Uninstall kbdd on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove kbdd

Uninstall kbdd And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kbdd

Remove kbdd Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kbdd

Remove kbdd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kbdd

Dependencies

kbdd have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libdbus-1-3
• libdbus-glib-1-2
• libglib2.0-0
• libx11-6
• dbus-x11

References

• kbdd website

Summary

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