How To Install paper-icon-theme on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is paper-icon-theme

paper-icon-theme is:

Paper is a modern freedesktop icon theme whose design is based around the use of bold colours and simple geometric shapes to compose icons. Each icon has been meticulously designed for pixel-perfect viewing.

While it does take some inspiration from the icons in Google’s Material Design, some aspects have been adjusted to better suit a desktop environment.

This package not only contains the Paper icon theme but also the Paper cursor theme, which is a complementary X11 cursor set.

There are three methods to install paper-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 paper-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 paper-icon-theme using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install paper-icon-theme Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install paper-icon-theme

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

sudo aptitude -y install paper-icon-theme

How To Uninstall paper-icon-theme on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove paper-icon-theme

Uninstall paper-icon-theme And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove paper-icon-theme Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

paper-icon-theme have the following dependencies:

References

• paper-icon-theme website

Summary

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