How To Install plasma-discover on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover
on Kali Linux.
What is plasma-discover
plasma-discover is:
Discover is a graphical software manager for the Plasma workspace. It helps users easily and quickly find applications and other software they might want to install.
By allowing to navigate a software library by search, categories, top lists along with detailed application information that includes screenshots and reviews, users can more quickly find applications that suit their needs.
Discover will also keep the system up to date by notifying about updates and installing them.
There are three methods to install plasma-discover
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 plasma-discover Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-discover
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install plasma-discover Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-discover
using apt
by running the following command:
Install plasma-discover 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.
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-discover
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall plasma-discover on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the plasma-discover
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall plasma-discover And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-discover
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove plasma-discover Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-discover
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove plasma-discover configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-discover
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
plasma-discover have the following dependencies:
- appstream
- apt-config-icons
- packagekit
- plasma-discover-common
- qml-module-org-kde-kcoreaddons
- qml-module-org-kde-kirigami2
- qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrols
- qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons
- qml-module-org-kde-qqc2desktopstyle
- qml-module-qtquick-dialogs
- kio
- libappstreamqt2
- libc6
- libkf5attica5
- libkf5configcore5
- libkf5configgui5
- libkf5configwidgets5
- libkf5coreaddons5
- libkf5crash5
- libkf5dbusaddons5
- libkf5i18n5
- libkf5itemmodels5
- libkf5kiocore5
- libkf5kiogui5
- libkf5kiowidgets5
- libkf5newstuffcore5
- libkf5notifications5
- libkf5quickaddons5
- libkf5service-bin
- libkf5service5
- libkf5widgetsaddons5
- libkf5xmlgui5
- libmarkdown2
- libpackagekitqt5-1
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5network5
- libqt5qml5
- libqt5quick5
- libqt5widgets5
- libqt5xml5
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.