How To Install plasma-marble on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-marble on Kali Linux.

What is plasma-marble

plasma-marble is:

Marble is a generic geographical map widget and framework for KDE applications. The Marble widget shows the earth as a sphere but does not require hardware acceleration. A minimal set of geographical data is included, so it can be used without an internet connection.

This package contains the Marble integration with Plasma:

• the Plasma runner
• the World Clock widget
• the Plasma wallpaper

This package is part of the KDE education module.

There are three methods to install plasma-marble 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-marble Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install plasma-marble

Install plasma-marble Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install plasma-marble

Install plasma-marble 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 plasma-marble using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plasma-marble

How To Uninstall plasma-marble on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the plasma-marble package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove plasma-marble

Uninstall plasma-marble And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-marble

Remove plasma-marble Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-marble

Remove plasma-marble configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-marble

Dependencies

plasma-marble have the following dependencies:

• marble-data

References

• plasma-marble website

Summary

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