How To Install phototonic on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install phototonic on Kali Linux. phototonic is image viewer and organizer

Introduction

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

What is phototonic

phototonic is:

Phototonic is an image viewer and organizer for Linux written in C++ and Qt5.

Features:

  • Light weight with a smooth and clear user interface
  • Does not depend on any desktop environment
  • Supports several customized thumbnail layouts
  • Load thumbnails and browse images recursively on a folder tree
  • Dynamic thumbnails loading, enables fast browsing of very large folders
  • Filter thumbnails by name
  • Image navigation and file management
  • Slide show
  • Transformation: rotation, flipping, cropping, image mirroring and scaling
  • Adjust image brightness, saturation, hue and contrast
  • Keep transformations, zoom and colors while browsing multiple images
  • Extensive automatic and manual zoom options
  • Supported image formats: BMP, GIF, ICO, JPEG, MNG, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, TGA, XBM, XPM and SVG, SVGZ, TIFF with plugins
  • Supports GIF animations
  • Keyboard shortcuts and mouse behavior customization
  • Load image files or folders from command line
  • Open images with external applications

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install phototonic

Install phototonic Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install phototonic

Install phototonic 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 phototonic using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phototonic

How To Uninstall phototonic on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove phototonic

Uninstall phototonic And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phototonic

Remove phototonic Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge phototonic

Remove phototonic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phototonic

Dependencies

phototonic have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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