How To Install mate-notification-daemon on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-notification-daemon on Kali Linux.
What is mate-notification-daemon
mate-notification-daemon is:
mate-notification-daemon displays passive popup notifications, as per the Desktop Notifications Specification.
The Desktop Notifications Specification provides a standard way of doing passive popup notifications on the Linux desktop. These are designed to notify the user of something without interrupting their work with a dialog box that they must close. Passive popups can automatically disappear after a short period of time, as per the Desktop Notifications spec.
There are three methods to install mate-notification-daemon 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-notification-daemon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mate-notification-daemon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mate-notification-daemonInstall mate-notification-daemon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mate-notification-daemon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mate-notification-daemonInstall mate-notification-daemon 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 mate-notification-daemon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mate-notification-daemonHow To Uninstall mate-notification-daemon on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mate-notification-daemon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mate-notification-daemonUninstall mate-notification-daemon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mate-notification-daemon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-notification-daemonRemove mate-notification-daemon Configurations and Data
To remove mate-notification-daemon configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mate-notification-daemonRemove mate-notification-daemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mate-notification-daemon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-notification-daemonDependencies
mate-notification-daemon have the following dependencies:
- mate-notification-daemon-common
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libcanberra-gtk3-0
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libnotify4
- libwnck-3-0
- libx11-6
- libxml2
- libglib2.0-bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-notification-daemon package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
