How To Install nitrogen on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is nitrogen

nitrogen is:

nitrogen is a graphical wallpaper utility that can be used in two modes, browser and recall. Some of the things to look for in nitrogen are:

• Multihead and Xinerama support (setting different wallpapers for each monitor)
• Recall mode to restore wallpapers via startup script
• Uses freedesktop.org standard for thumbnails
• Can set GNOME background
• Command line set modes for script usage
• Inotify monitoring of browsed directories

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install nitrogen

Install nitrogen Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install nitrogen

Install nitrogen 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 nitrogen using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nitrogen

How To Uninstall nitrogen on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove nitrogen

Uninstall nitrogen And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nitrogen

Remove nitrogen Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge nitrogen

Remove nitrogen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nitrogen

Dependencies

nitrogen have the following dependencies:

• libatk1.0-0
• libatkmm-1.6-1v5
• libc6
• libcairo2
• libcairomm-1.0-1v5
• libfontconfig1
• libfreetype6
• libgcc1

References

• nitrogen website

Summary

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