How To Install mate-calc on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-calc on Kali Linux.

What is mate-calc

mate-calc is:

mate-calc is a powerful graphical calculator with financial, logical and scientific modes. It uses a multiple precision package to do its arithmetic to give a high degree of accuracy.

There are three methods to install mate-calc 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 mate-calc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mate-calc

Install mate-calc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mate-calc

Install mate-calc 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 mate-calc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mate-calc

How To Uninstall mate-calc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the mate-calc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mate-calc

Uninstall mate-calc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-calc

Remove mate-calc Configurations and Data

To remove mate-calc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mate-calc

Remove mate-calc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-calc

Dependencies

mate-calc have the following dependencies:

• mate-calc-common
• mate-calc-common
• libatk1.0-0
• libc6
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk-3-0
• libpango-1.0-0
• libxml2

References

• mate-calc website

Summary

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