How To Install libreoffice-plasma on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreoffice-plasma on Kali Linux.

What is libreoffice-plasma

libreoffice-plasma is:

LibreOffice is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office.

This package contains some minor Plasma integration (like AppData and “Create New…” integration) and a KDE/KF5 configuration backend.

There are three methods to install libreoffice-plasma 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 libreoffice-plasma Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libreoffice-plasma

Install libreoffice-plasma Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libreoffice-plasma

Install libreoffice-plasma 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 libreoffice-plasma using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libreoffice-plasma

How To Uninstall libreoffice-plasma on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libreoffice-plasma package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-plasma

Uninstall libreoffice-plasma And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libreoffice-plasma

Remove libreoffice-plasma Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libreoffice-plasma

Remove libreoffice-plasma configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libreoffice-plasma

Dependencies

libreoffice-plasma have the following dependencies:

• libreoffice-core

References

• libreoffice-plasma website

Summary

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