How To Install network-manager-gnome on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install network-manager-gnome on Kali Linux.
What is network-manager-gnome
network-manager-gnome is:
NetworkManager is a system network service that manages your network devices and connections, attempting to keep active network connectivity when available. It manages ethernet, WiFi, mobile broadband (WWAN), and PPPoE devices, and provides VPN integration with a variety of different VPN services.
This package contains a systray applet for GNOME’s notification area but it also works for other desktop environments which provide a systray like KDE or Xfce. It displays the available networks and allows users to easily switch between them. For encrypted networks it will prompt the user for the key/passphrase and it can optionally store them in the gnome-keyring.
There are three methods to install network-manager-gnome 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 network-manager-gnome Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install network-manager-gnome using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install network-manager-gnomeInstall network-manager-gnome Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install network-manager-gnome using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install network-manager-gnomeInstall network-manager-gnome 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 network-manager-gnome using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install network-manager-gnomeHow To Uninstall network-manager-gnome on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the network-manager-gnome package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove network-manager-gnomeUninstall network-manager-gnome And Its Dependencies
To uninstall network-manager-gnome and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove network-manager-gnomeRemove network-manager-gnome Configurations and Data
To remove network-manager-gnome configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge network-manager-gnomeRemove network-manager-gnome configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove network-manager-gnome configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge network-manager-gnomeDependencies
network-manager-gnome have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libayatana-appindicator3-1
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libjansson4
- libmm-glib0
- libnm0
- libnma0
- libnotify4
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libsecret-1-0
- libselinux1
- network-manager
- policykit-1-gnome
- default-dbus-session-bus
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install network-manager-gnome package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
