How To Install libkf5mime-data on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libkf5mime-data on Kali Linux.

What is libkf5mime-data

libkf5mime-data is:

This library provides an API for handling MIME data. MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is an Internet Standard that extends the format of e-mail to support text in character sets other than US-ASCII, non-text attachments, multi-part message bodies, and header information in non-ASCII character sets.

This package contains the arch independent data for KMime.

There are three methods to install libkf5mime-data 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 libkf5mime-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libkf5mime-data using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libkf5mime-data

Install libkf5mime-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libkf5mime-data using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libkf5mime-data

Install libkf5mime-data 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 libkf5mime-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libkf5mime-data

How To Uninstall libkf5mime-data on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libkf5mime-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libkf5mime-data

Uninstall libkf5mime-data And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libkf5mime-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libkf5mime-data

Remove libkf5mime-data Configurations and Data

To remove libkf5mime-data configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libkf5mime-data

Remove libkf5mime-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libkf5mime-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libkf5mime-data

Dependencies

libkf5mime-data have the following dependencies:

References

• libkf5mime-data website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libkf5mime-data package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.