How To Install libmutter-7-dev on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmutter-7-dev on Kali Linux. libmutter-7-dev is Development files for the Mutter window manager

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:

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.