How To Install malcontent-gui on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install malcontent-gui on Kali Linux.
What is malcontent-gui
malcontent-gui is:
malcontent implements support for restricting the type of content accessible to non-administrator accounts on a Linux system. Typically, when this is used, a non-administrator account will be for a child using the system; and the administrator accounts will be for the parents; and the content being filtered will be apps which are not suitable for the child to use, due to (for example) being too violent.
This is not a security boundary, and a sufficiently technically advanced user may always work around these parental controls. malcontent is not a mandatory access control (MAC) system like AppArmor or SELinux. However, its correct use by applications should provide enough of an obstacle to prevent users easily or accidentally having access to content which they shouldn??t.
This package contains the GUI to configure malcontent.
There are three methods to install malcontent-gui 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 malcontent-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install malcontent-gui using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install malcontent-guiInstall malcontent-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install malcontent-gui using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install malcontent-guiInstall malcontent-gui 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 malcontent-gui using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install malcontent-guiHow To Uninstall malcontent-gui on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the malcontent-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove malcontent-guiUninstall malcontent-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall malcontent-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove malcontent-guiRemove malcontent-gui Configurations and Data
To remove malcontent-gui configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge malcontent-guiRemove malcontent-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove malcontent-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge malcontent-guiDependencies
malcontent-gui have the following dependencies:
- malcontent
- libaccountsservice0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libmalcontent-ui-0-0
- libpolkit-gobject-1-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install malcontent-gui package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.