How To Install kphotoalbum on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kphotoalbum on Kali Linux.
What is kphotoalbum
kphotoalbum is:
KPhotoAlbum lets you index, search, group and view images by keywords, date, locations and persons. It provides a quick and elegant way to lookup groups of images when you have thousands of pictures on your hard disk.
The information associated with each photo is stored in an XML file. Together with its keywords, KPhotoAlbum stores each picture’s MD5 sum, so it will recognize them even if you move them to another directory. KPhotoAlbum can also create HTML galleries with the images you select.
KPhotoAlbum can also make use of the KIPI image handling plugins to extend its capabilities. The kipi-plugins package contains many useful extensions. Among others, it contains extensions for photo manipulation, importing, exporting and batch processing.
There are three methods to install kphotoalbum 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 kphotoalbum Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install kphotoalbum using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kphotoalbumInstall kphotoalbum Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install kphotoalbum using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kphotoalbumInstall kphotoalbum 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 kphotoalbum using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kphotoalbumHow To Uninstall kphotoalbum on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the kphotoalbum package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kphotoalbumUninstall kphotoalbum And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kphotoalbum and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kphotoalbumRemove kphotoalbum Configurations and Data
To remove kphotoalbum configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kphotoalbumRemove kphotoalbum configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kphotoalbum configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kphotoalbumDependencies
kphotoalbum have the following dependencies:
- kio
- libc6
- libexiv2-27
- libgcc-s1
- libjpeg62-turbo
- libkf5archive5
- libkf5completion5
- libkf5configcore5
- libkf5configwidgets5
- libkf5coreaddons5
- libkf5i18n5
- libkf5iconthemes5
- libkf5jobwidgets5
- libkf5kdcraw5
- libkf5kiocore5
- libkf5kiogui5
- libkf5kiowidgets5
- libkf5purpose-bin
- libkf5purpose5
- libkf5service-bin
- libkf5service5
- libkf5textwidgets5
- libkf5widgetsaddons5
- libkf5xmlgui5
- libmarblewidget-qt5-28
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kphotoalbum package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.