How To Install kmymoney-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kmymoney-common on Kali Linux.

What is kmymoney-common

kmymoney-common is:

KMyMoney is the Personal Finance Manager for KDE. It operates similar to MS-Money and Quicken, supports different account types, categorisation of expenses, QIF import/export, multiple currencies and initial online banking support.

This package contains architecture independent files needed for KMyMoney to run properly. It also provides KMyMoney documentation. Therefore, unless you have ‘kmymoney’ package installed, you will hardly find this package useful.

There are three methods to install kmymoney-common 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 kmymoney-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kmymoney-common

Install kmymoney-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kmymoney-common

Install kmymoney-common 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 kmymoney-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kmymoney-common

How To Uninstall kmymoney-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the kmymoney-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kmymoney-common

Uninstall kmymoney-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kmymoney-common

Remove kmymoney-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kmymoney-common

Remove kmymoney-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kmymoney-common

Dependencies

kmymoney-common have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• kmymoney-common website

Summary

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