How To Install lxsession-data on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lxsession-data
on Kali Linux.
What is lxsession-data
lxsession-data is:
LXSession is the default session manager for the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE).
This package provides common files for lxsession and supplementary packages.
There are three methods to install lxsession-data
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 lxsession-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lxsession-data
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lxsession-data
Install lxsession-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lxsession-data
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lxsession-data
Install lxsession-data 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 lxsession-data
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lxsession-data
How To Uninstall lxsession-data on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the lxsession-data
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lxsession-data
Uninstall lxsession-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lxsession-data
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lxsession-data
Remove lxsession-data Configurations and Data
To remove lxsession-data
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lxsession-data
Remove lxsession-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lxsession-data
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lxsession-data
Dependencies
lxsession-data have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lxsession-data
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.