How To Install multex-base on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install multex-base on Kali Linux.

What is multex-base

multex-base is:

MulTeX is a TeX implementation for Multilingual text processing including Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

There are three methods to install multex-base 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 multex-base Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install multex-base

Install multex-base Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install multex-base

Install multex-base 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 multex-base using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install multex-base

How To Uninstall multex-base on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the multex-base package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove multex-base

Uninstall multex-base And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove multex-base

Remove multex-base Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge multex-base

Remove multex-base configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge multex-base

Dependencies

multex-base have the following dependencies:

• texlive-binaries

References

• multex-base website

Summary

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