How To Install metacity-common on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install metacity-common
on Kali Linux.
What is metacity-common
metacity-common is:
Metacity is a small window manager, using GTK+ to do everything.
As the author says, metacity is a “Boring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios.”
This package contains the shared files.
There are three methods to install metacity-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 metacity-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install metacity-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install metacity-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install metacity-common
using apt
by running the following command:
Install metacity-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.
After updating apt database, We can install metacity-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall metacity-common on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the metacity-common
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall metacity-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall metacity-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove metacity-common Configurations and Data
To remove metacity-common
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove metacity-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove metacity-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
metacity-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install metacity-common
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.