How To Install plasma-nm on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is plasma-nm

plasma-nm is:

plasma-nm provides a Plasma applet written in QML for managing network connections using Network Manager.

This package is part of the KDE Plasma.

There are three methods to install plasma-nm 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-nm 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-nm using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install plasma-nm

Install plasma-nm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install plasma-nm

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

sudo aptitude -y install plasma-nm

How To Uninstall plasma-nm on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove plasma-nm

Uninstall plasma-nm And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-nm

Remove plasma-nm Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-nm

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

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

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

Dependencies

plasma-nm have the following dependencies:

• mobile-broadband-provider-info
• network-manager
• plasma-framework
• qml-module-org-kde-kcoreaddons
• qml-module-org-kde-kirigami2
• qml-module-org-kde-prison
• kio
• libc6
• libkf5completion5
• libkf5configcore5
• libkf5configwidgets5
• libkf5coreaddons5
• libkf5dbusaddons5
• libkf5declarative5
• libkf5i18n5
• libkf5iconthemes5
• libkf5kiowidgets5
• libkf5modemmanagerqt6
• libkf5networkmanagerqt6
• libkf5notifications5
• libkf5service-bin
• libkf5service5
• libkf5solid5
• libkf5wallet-bin
• libkf5wallet5
• libkf5widgetsaddons5
• libkf5windowsystem5
• libnm0
• libopenconnect5
• libqca-qt5-2
• libqt5core5a
• libqt5dbus5
• libqt5gui5
• libqt5network5
• libqt5qml5
• libqt5quickwidgets5
• libqt5widgets5
• libqt5xml5
• libstdc++6

References

• plasma-nm website

Summary

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