How To Install ksysguard on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ksysguard on Kali Linux.

What is ksysguard

ksysguard is:

System Guard allows you to monitor various statistics about your system.

In addition to monitoring the local system, it can connect to remote systems running the System Guard Daemon, which is in the ‘ksysguardd’ package.

This package is part of the KDE base workspace module.

There are three methods to install ksysguard 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 ksysguard Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ksysguard

Install ksysguard Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ksysguard using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ksysguard

Install ksysguard 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 ksysguard using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ksysguard

How To Uninstall ksysguard on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ksysguard package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ksysguard

Uninstall ksysguard And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ksysguard

Remove ksysguard Configurations and Data

To remove ksysguard configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ksysguard

Remove ksysguard configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ksysguard

Dependencies

ksysguard have the following dependencies:

• ksysguard-data

References

• ksysguard website

Summary

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