How To Install kio-extras on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kio-extras on Kali Linux.

What is kio-extras

kio-extras is:

A kioslave is a plugin designed to be intimately familiar with a certain protocol, so that a standardized interface can be used to get at data from any number of places. A few examples are the http and ftp kioslaves, which using nearly identical methods will retrieve data from an http or ftp server respectively.

This package is part of the KDE base workspace module.

There are three methods to install kio-extras 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 kio-extras Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kio-extras

Install kio-extras Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kio-extras

Install kio-extras 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 kio-extras using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kio-extras

How To Uninstall kio-extras on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the kio-extras package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kio-extras

Uninstall kio-extras And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kio-extras

Remove kio-extras Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kio-extras

Remove kio-extras configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kio-extras

Dependencies

kio-extras have the following dependencies:

• kio-extras-data

References

• kio-extras website

Summary

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