How To Install kde-telepathy-auth-handler on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kde-telepathy-auth-handler on Kali Linux.

What is kde-telepathy-auth-handler

kde-telepathy-auth-handler is:

This package provides a Telepathy handler for the ServerAuthentication and ServerTLSConnection Telepathy channel types, which means that it provides passwords to connection managers (and stores them using KWallet) and also handles SSL certificate errors in encrypted IM connections.

This package is not meant to be used standalone. It is recommended to install the kde-telepathy metapackage instead.

There are three methods to install kde-telepathy-auth-handler 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 kde-telepathy-auth-handler Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install kde-telepathy-auth-handler using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install kde-telepathy-auth-handler

Install kde-telepathy-auth-handler Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install kde-telepathy-auth-handler using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install kde-telepathy-auth-handler

Install kde-telepathy-auth-handler 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 kde-telepathy-auth-handler using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kde-telepathy-auth-handler

How To Uninstall kde-telepathy-auth-handler on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the kde-telepathy-auth-handler package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kde-telepathy-auth-handler

Uninstall kde-telepathy-auth-handler And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kde-telepathy-auth-handler and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kde-telepathy-auth-handler

Remove kde-telepathy-auth-handler Configurations and Data

To remove kde-telepathy-auth-handler configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kde-telepathy-auth-handler

Remove kde-telepathy-auth-handler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove kde-telepathy-auth-handler configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kde-telepathy-auth-handler

Dependencies

kde-telepathy-auth-handler have the following dependencies:

• kde-telepathy-data
• libqca-qt5-2-plugins
• kio
• libaccounts-qt5-1
• libc6
• libkaccounts2

References

• kde-telepathy-auth-handler website

Summary

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