How To Install notcurses-bin on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install notcurses-bin on Kali Linux.
What is notcurses-bin
notcurses-bin is:
Notcurses facilitates the creation of modern TUI programs, making full use of Unicode and 24-bit TrueColor. It presents an API similar to that of Curses, and rides atop Terminfo.
These utilities from the Notcurses project include notcurses-demo (a demonstration of various libnotcurses capabilities), ncplayer (a character mode multimedia player), ncls (a file lister that displays multimedia), and other tools. Unit tests are furthermore bundled as notcurses-tester.
There are three methods to install notcurses-bin 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 notcurses-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install notcurses-bin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install notcurses-binInstall notcurses-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install notcurses-bin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install notcurses-binInstall notcurses-bin 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 notcurses-bin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install notcurses-binHow To Uninstall notcurses-bin on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the notcurses-bin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove notcurses-binUninstall notcurses-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall notcurses-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove notcurses-binRemove notcurses-bin Configurations and Data
To remove notcurses-bin configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge notcurses-binRemove notcurses-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove notcurses-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge notcurses-binDependencies
notcurses-bin have the following dependencies:
- notcurses-data
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libnotcurses++2
- libnotcurses-core2
- libnotcurses2
- libstdc++6
- libtinfo6
- libunistring2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install notcurses-bin package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
