How To Install onboard-data on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is onboard-data

onboard-data is:

On-screen Keyboard with macros, easy layout creation and word suggestion.

This package installs default language model files for various languages. The word suggestion feature of Onboard uses these files (and if available also custom user language model files) to compute the word completion suggestions and the word prediction suggestions.

There are three methods to install onboard-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 onboard-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 onboard-data using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install onboard-data

Install onboard-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install onboard-data

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

sudo aptitude -y install onboard-data

How To Uninstall onboard-data on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove onboard-data

Uninstall onboard-data And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove onboard-data

Remove onboard-data Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge onboard-data

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

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

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

Dependencies

onboard-data have the following dependencies:

• onboard
• onboard

References

• onboard-data website

Summary

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