How To Install pidgin-blinklight on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pidgin-blinklight on Kali Linux.

What is pidgin-blinklight

pidgin-blinklight is:

This plugin for Pidgin will blink your laptops when you get new messages, so you notice them even if the conversation window is not up front and you don’t have or don’t see the window list.

To use this with an Thinkpad’s ThinkLight, you need to have the ibm-acpi kernel module loaded.

To use this with an ASUS laptop, you need to have the asus_acpi kernel module loaded.

There are three methods to install pidgin-blinklight 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 pidgin-blinklight Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pidgin-blinklight

Install pidgin-blinklight Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pidgin-blinklight

Install pidgin-blinklight 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 pidgin-blinklight using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pidgin-blinklight

How To Uninstall pidgin-blinklight on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the pidgin-blinklight package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pidgin-blinklight

Uninstall pidgin-blinklight And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pidgin-blinklight

Remove pidgin-blinklight Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge pidgin-blinklight

Remove pidgin-blinklight configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pidgin-blinklight

Dependencies

pidgin-blinklight have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• pidgin
• pidgin

References

• pidgin-blinklight website

Summary

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