How To Install libview2 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libview2 on Kali Linux.

What is libview2

libview2 is:

libview is VMware’s Incredibly Exciting Widgets, a useful collection of GTK+ widgets used within VMware products, free for everybody’s use.

This library consists of several widgets that are used by VMware in Workstation and other products and has been given back to the OSS community. These widgets are under the MIT license and are largely written in C++ for GTKMM.

This is the library package.

There are three methods to install libview2 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 libview2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libview2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libview2

Install libview2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libview2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libview2

Install libview2 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 libview2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libview2

How To Uninstall libview2 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libview2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libview2

Uninstall libview2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libview2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libview2

Remove libview2 Configurations and Data

To remove libview2 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libview2

Remove libview2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libview2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libview2

Dependencies

libview2 have the following dependencies:

• libatkmm-1.6-1v5
• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• libview2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libview2 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.