How To Install mlterm on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mlterm on Kali Linux.
What is mlterm
mlterm is:
This is a terminal emulator for X Window System, which supports various encodings including ISO-8859-[1-11,13-16], TCVN5712, VISCII, TIS-620 (same as ISO-8859-11), KOI8-{R,U,T}, CP{1251,1255}, GEORGEAN-PS, EUC-JP, EUC-JISX0213, ISO-2022-JP{,1,2,3}, Shift_JIS, Shift_JISX0213, ISO-2022-KR, EUC-KR, UHC, JOHAB, EUC-CN (aka GB2312), GBK, ISO-2022-CN, Big5, EUC-TW, HZ, UTF-8, and GB18030.
Doublewidth characters for east Asian, combining characters for Thai, Vietnamese, and other diacritics, BiDi (bi-directionality) for Arabic and Hebrew as well as Arabic shaping are all supported. Though mlterm supports Indic complex languages such as Hindi, this Debian package is not compiled with Indic support.
Since mlterm checks the current locale and selects appropriate encoding, you don’t need to configure mlterm to display your language and encoding.
mlterm also supports unique features such as scrollbar API, multiple windows, multiple XIM, anti-alias using FreeType and Xft, and so on.
There are three methods to install mlterm 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 mlterm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mlterm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mltermInstall mlterm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mlterm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mltermInstall mlterm 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 mlterm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mltermHow To Uninstall mlterm on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mlterm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mltermUninstall mlterm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mlterm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mltermRemove mlterm Configurations and Data
To remove mlterm configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mltermRemove mlterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mlterm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mltermDependencies
mlterm have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mlterm package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.