How To Install poster on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is poster

poster is:

Poster takes a one-page PostScript file and scales it to a specified size. It can tile the resulting image into multiple smaller pages that can be pasted together to form the big poster. Poster prefers EPS as its input although freer forms of PostScript are also understood.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install poster

Install poster Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install poster

Install poster 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 poster using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install poster

How To Uninstall poster on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove poster

Uninstall poster And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove poster

Remove poster Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge poster

Remove poster configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge poster

Dependencies

poster have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libpaper1

References

• poster website

Summary

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