How To Install lxsession-default-apps on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lxsession-default-apps on Kali Linux.

What is lxsession-default-apps

lxsession-default-apps is:

LXSession is the default session manager for the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE).

LXSession-Default-Apps is an utility to configure lxsession and its default applications.

There are three methods to install lxsession-default-apps 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-default-apps 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-default-apps using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lxsession-default-apps

Install lxsession-default-apps Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install lxsession-default-apps using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install lxsession-default-apps

Install lxsession-default-apps 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-default-apps using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lxsession-default-apps

How To Uninstall lxsession-default-apps on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the lxsession-default-apps package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lxsession-default-apps

Uninstall lxsession-default-apps And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lxsession-default-apps

Remove lxsession-default-apps Configurations and Data

To remove lxsession-default-apps configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lxsession-default-apps

Remove lxsession-default-apps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove lxsession-default-apps configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lxsession-default-apps

Dependencies

lxsession-default-apps have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-0
• lxsession
• lxsession-data

References

• lxsession-default-apps website

Summary

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