How To Install oxygen-icon-theme on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install oxygen-icon-theme on Kali Linux.

What is oxygen-icon-theme

oxygen-icon-theme is:

Oxygen is the standard icon theme for KDE 4, but follows the freedesktop.org icon schemes, so it can be used in other desktop environments using this specification.

There are three methods to install oxygen-icon-theme 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 oxygen-icon-theme Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install oxygen-icon-theme

Install oxygen-icon-theme Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install oxygen-icon-theme using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install oxygen-icon-theme

Install oxygen-icon-theme 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 oxygen-icon-theme using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install oxygen-icon-theme

How To Uninstall oxygen-icon-theme on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the oxygen-icon-theme package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove oxygen-icon-theme

Uninstall oxygen-icon-theme And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove oxygen-icon-theme

Remove oxygen-icon-theme Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge oxygen-icon-theme

Remove oxygen-icon-theme configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oxygen-icon-theme

Dependencies

oxygen-icon-theme have the following dependencies:

• hicolor-icon-theme

References

• oxygen-icon-theme website

Summary

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