How To Install magicfilter on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is magicfilter

magicfilter is:

Magicfilter is a customizable, extensible automatic printer filter.

It translates the files that you send to a printer to a “language” that your printer can “understand”. To accomplish this goal, it determines the type of the file that is to be printed and uses its “knowledge” to convert the file to something that is printable.

This is done by use of magicfilter’s own magic database (a la file(1)) to decide how to print out a given print job.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install magicfilter

Install magicfilter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install magicfilter

Install magicfilter 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 magicfilter using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install magicfilter

How To Uninstall magicfilter on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove magicfilter

Uninstall magicfilter And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove magicfilter

Remove magicfilter Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge magicfilter

Remove magicfilter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge magicfilter

Dependencies

magicfilter have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• magicfilter website

Summary

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