How To Install mcomix on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mcomix on Kali Linux.

What is mcomix

mcomix is:

MComix is an user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer. It reads images in ZIP, RAR, 7Zip or tar archives as well as plain image files. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ through the PyGTK bindings, and runs on both Linux and Windows.

MComix is a fork of the Comix project, and aims to add bug fixes and stability improvements after Comix development came to a halt in late 2009.

MComix3 is a fork of the MComix project (of gtk3 branch), which port MComix to python3.

There are three methods to install mcomix 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 mcomix Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mcomix

Install mcomix Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mcomix using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mcomix

Install mcomix 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 mcomix using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mcomix

How To Uninstall mcomix on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the mcomix package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mcomix

Uninstall mcomix And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mcomix

Remove mcomix Configurations and Data

To remove mcomix configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mcomix

Remove mcomix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mcomix

Dependencies

mcomix have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• mcomix website

Summary

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