How To Install mutter on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install mutter on Kali Linux. mutter is Example window manager using GNOMEs window manager library

Introduction

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

What is mutter

mutter is:

Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.

Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.

This package contains the mutter executable. It can be used as a standalone window manager, but is primarily intended for debugging.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mutter

Install mutter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mutter

Install mutter 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 mutter using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mutter

How To Uninstall mutter on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove mutter

Uninstall mutter And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mutter

Remove mutter Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mutter

Remove mutter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mutter

Dependencies

mutter have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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