How To Install pngphoon on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install pngphoon on Kali Linux. pngphoon is Creates a png file with the current phase of the moon

Introduction

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

What is pngphoon

pngphoon is:

This program is intended as a successor to the xphoon program (X PHase of mOON). xphoon is a program that displays the actual phase of the moon on the X11 root window. Nowadays many desktop systems like KDE hide the X11 root window with a background image of their own, so the xphoon output is not visible. When called, pngphoon creates a PNG image with the current phase of the moon. It can be used with window managers that allow using a command to provide a background image.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pngphoon

Install pngphoon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pngphoon

Install pngphoon 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 pngphoon using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pngphoon

How To Uninstall pngphoon on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove pngphoon

Uninstall pngphoon And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pngphoon

Remove pngphoon Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge pngphoon

Remove pngphoon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pngphoon

Dependencies

pngphoon have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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