How To Install libwayland-cursor0 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwayland-cursor0 on Kali Linux.
What is libwayland-cursor0
libwayland-cursor0 is:
Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.
This package ships a helper library to manage cursors.
There are three methods to install libwayland-cursor0 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 libwayland-cursor0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libwayland-cursor0 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libwayland-cursor0Install libwayland-cursor0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libwayland-cursor0 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libwayland-cursor0Install libwayland-cursor0 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libwayland-cursor0 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libwayland-cursor0How To Uninstall libwayland-cursor0 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libwayland-cursor0 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libwayland-cursor0Uninstall libwayland-cursor0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libwayland-cursor0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwayland-cursor0Remove libwayland-cursor0 Configurations and Data
To remove libwayland-cursor0 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libwayland-cursor0Remove libwayland-cursor0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libwayland-cursor0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libwayland-cursor0Dependencies
libwayland-cursor0 have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwayland-cursor0 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.