How To Install muffin-doc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install muffin-doc on Kali Linux. muffin-doc is lightweight window and compositing manager (Documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install muffin-doc on Kali Linux.

What is muffin-doc

muffin-doc is:

Muffin is a small window manager performing compositing as well based on GTK+ and Clutter and used in desktop environment such as Cinnamon.

It is fairly extensible by the mean of plugins, providing new or customized visual effects as well as a flexibility in the behavior of the window manager.

This package contains the documentation files distributed with Cinnamon.

There are three methods to install muffin-doc 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 muffin-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install muffin-doc

Install muffin-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install muffin-doc

Install muffin-doc 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 muffin-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install muffin-doc

How To Uninstall muffin-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the muffin-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove muffin-doc

Uninstall muffin-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove muffin-doc

Remove muffin-doc Configurations and Data

To remove muffin-doc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge muffin-doc

Remove muffin-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge muffin-doc

Dependencies

muffin-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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