How To Install libmutter-7-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmutter-7-dev
on Kali Linux.
What is libmutter-7-dev
libmutter-7-dev is:
Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install libmutter-7-dev
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 libmutter-7-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmutter-7-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmutter-7-dev
Install libmutter-7-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmutter-7-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmutter-7-dev
Install libmutter-7-dev 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 libmutter-7-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmutter-7-dev
How To Uninstall libmutter-7-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libmutter-7-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmutter-7-dev
Uninstall libmutter-7-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmutter-7-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmutter-7-dev
Remove libmutter-7-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libmutter-7-dev
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmutter-7-dev
Remove libmutter-7-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmutter-7-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmutter-7-dev
Dependencies
libmutter-7-dev have the following dependencies:
- gir1.2-mutter-7
- gsettings-desktop-schemas-dev
- libatk1.0-dev
- libcairo2-dev
- libdrm-dev
- libegl1-mesa-dev
- libgbm-dev
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev
- libgles2-mesa-dev
- libglib2.0-dev
- libgraphene-1.0-dev
- libgtk-3-dev
- libinput-dev
- libjson-glib-dev
- libmutter-7-0
- libpango1.0-dev
- libudev-dev
- libwayland-dev
- libx11-dev
- libxcomposite-dev
- libxdamage-dev
- libxext-dev
- libxfixes-dev
- libxi-dev
- libxrandr-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmutter-7-dev
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.