How To Install lxlauncher on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is lxlauncher

lxlauncher is:

LXLauncher is a GUI application for the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE).

It is a Easy-Mode launcher for netbooks and subnotebooks like the EeePC. It’s standard-compliant and desktop-independent. It follows freedesktop.org specs, so newly added applications will automatically show up in the launcher, and vice versa for the removed ones.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lxlauncher

Install lxlauncher Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lxlauncher

Install lxlauncher 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 lxlauncher using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lxlauncher

How To Uninstall lxlauncher on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lxlauncher

Uninstall lxlauncher And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lxlauncher

Remove lxlauncher Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lxlauncher

Remove lxlauncher configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lxlauncher

Dependencies

lxlauncher have the following dependencies:

• libatk1.0-0
• libc6
• libcairo2
• libfontconfig1
• libfreetype6
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-0
• libmenu-cache3
• libpango-1.0-0
• libpangocairo-1.0-0
• libpangoft2-1.0-0
• libstartup-notification0
• libx11-6
• lxmenu-data

References

• lxlauncher website

Summary

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