How To Install libsm6 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsm6
on Kali Linux.
What is libsm6
libsm6 is:
This package provides the main interface to the X11 Session Management library, which allows for applications to both manage sessions, and make use of session managers to save and restore their state for later use.
This module can be found at git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/lib/libSM
There are three methods to install libsm6
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 libsm6 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install libsm6
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install libsm6 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install libsm6
using apt
by running the following command:
Install libsm6 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.
After updating apt database, We can install libsm6
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libsm6 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libsm6
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall libsm6 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsm6
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove libsm6 Configurations and Data
To remove libsm6
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove libsm6 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsm6
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
libsm6 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsm6
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.