How To Install phosh-phone on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install phosh-phone on Kali Linux.

What is phosh-phone

phosh-phone is:

These are the phone related components of the GNOME/Phosh environment for mobile devices.

This aims to be similar to the GNOME desktop environment but for mobile devices.

This metapackage depends on a set of programs that are needed for phone calls and sms handling.

There are three methods to install phosh-phone 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 phosh-phone Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install phosh-phone

Install phosh-phone Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install phosh-phone

Install phosh-phone 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 phosh-phone using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phosh-phone

How To Uninstall phosh-phone on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the phosh-phone package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove phosh-phone

Uninstall phosh-phone And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phosh-phone

Remove phosh-phone Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge phosh-phone

Remove phosh-phone configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phosh-phone

Dependencies

phosh-phone have the following dependencies:

• chatty
• gnome-calls
• gnome-contacts
• modemmanager
• phosh-core
• purple-mm-sms
• wys

References

• phosh-phone website

Summary

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