How To Install kconfig-frontends on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kconfig-frontends on Kali Linux.
What is kconfig-frontends
kconfig-frontends is:
Kconfig-frontends provides the kconfig parser, as well as all the frontends (dialog, ncurses, Qt and Gtk based) to configure and generate config files and config headers for various projects. This package release old both console (dialog, ncurses) and graphic (qt) versions.
There are three methods to install kconfig-frontends 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 kconfig-frontends Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install kconfig-frontends using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kconfig-frontendsInstall kconfig-frontends Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install kconfig-frontends using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kconfig-frontendsInstall kconfig-frontends 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install kconfig-frontends using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kconfig-frontendsHow To Uninstall kconfig-frontends on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the kconfig-frontends package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kconfig-frontendsUninstall kconfig-frontends And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kconfig-frontends and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kconfig-frontendsRemove kconfig-frontends Configurations and Data
To remove kconfig-frontends configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kconfig-frontendsRemove kconfig-frontends configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kconfig-frontends configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kconfig-frontendsDependencies
kconfig-frontends have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libncursesw6
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5widgets5
- libstdc++6
- libtinfo6
- python3
- libncurses-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kconfig-frontends package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
