How To Install lemonbar on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is lemonbar

lemonbar is:

lemonbar is a lightweight bar based on XCB. It provides foreground/background color switching along with text alignment and colored under/overlining of text, full utf8 support and reduced memory footprint. Nothing less and nothing more.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lemonbar

Install lemonbar Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lemonbar

Install lemonbar 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 lemonbar using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lemonbar

How To Uninstall lemonbar on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lemonbar

Uninstall lemonbar And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lemonbar

Remove lemonbar Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lemonbar

Remove lemonbar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lemonbar

Dependencies

lemonbar have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libxcb-randr0
• libxcb1

References

• lemonbar website

Summary

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