How To Install notcurses-data on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install notcurses-data on Kali Linux.

What is notcurses-data

notcurses-data 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.

This package contains multimedia used by notcurses-demo and notcurses-tester from the notcurses-bin package.

There are three methods to install notcurses-data 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-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install notcurses-data

Install notcurses-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install notcurses-data

Install notcurses-data 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 notcurses-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install notcurses-data

How To Uninstall notcurses-data on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the notcurses-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove notcurses-data

Uninstall notcurses-data And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove notcurses-data

Remove notcurses-data Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge notcurses-data

Remove notcurses-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge notcurses-data

Dependencies

notcurses-data have the following dependencies:

References

• notcurses-data website

Summary

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