How To Install mate-desktop-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is mate-desktop-common

mate-desktop-common is:

The MATE component mate-desktop contains the libmate-desktop library, the mate-about program, as well as some desktop-wide documents.

The libmate-desktop library provides an API shared by several applications on the desktop, but that cannot live in the platform for various reasons.

This package contains the architecture-independent files.

There are three methods to install mate-desktop-common 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-desktop-common 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-desktop-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mate-desktop-common

Install mate-desktop-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mate-desktop-common

Install mate-desktop-common 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-desktop-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mate-desktop-common

How To Uninstall mate-desktop-common on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove mate-desktop-common

Uninstall mate-desktop-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-desktop-common

Remove mate-desktop-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mate-desktop-common

Remove mate-desktop-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-desktop-common

Dependencies

mate-desktop-common have the following dependencies:

• dconf-gsettings-backend

References

• mate-desktop-common website

Summary

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