How To Install mate-desktop on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-desktop
on Kali Linux.
What is mate-desktop
mate-desktop 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.
The mate-about program helps with finding which version of MATE is installed.
NOTE: This package does not install the complete MATE desktop environment for you. The full desktop environment can be installed via the metapackage mate-desktop-environment.
There are three methods to install mate-desktop
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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mate-desktop
Install mate-desktop Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-desktop
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mate-desktop
Install mate-desktop 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mate-desktop
How To Uninstall mate-desktop on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mate-desktop
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mate-desktop
Uninstall mate-desktop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mate-desktop
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-desktop
Remove mate-desktop Configurations and Data
To remove mate-desktop
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mate-desktop
Remove mate-desktop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mate-desktop
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-desktop
Dependencies
mate-desktop have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-desktop
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.