How To Install oroborus on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is oroborus

oroborus is:

Oroborus is a small and simple window manager which does exactly what it says it does, manage windows. There is no fancy doc, clip, wharf, or a root menu for that matter. These utilities can be provided by other programs such as “deskmenu”. Oroborus has support for Gnome and session management, or can be run as a stand-alone window manager. This package has also been compiled with Xinerama support.

Oroborus is small, about 72Kb at the time of this package. It has full keyboard control and is very themeable.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install oroborus

Install oroborus Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install oroborus

Install oroborus 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 oroborus using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install oroborus

How To Uninstall oroborus on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove oroborus

Uninstall oroborus And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove oroborus

Remove oroborus Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge oroborus

Remove oroborus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oroborus

Dependencies

oroborus have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libice6

References

• oroborus website

Summary

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