How To Install pterm on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is pterm

pterm is:

This is an X terminal emulator based on the popular Windows SSH client, PuTTY. It supports xterm escape sequences, plus some Linux console sequences for colour palette configuration and some DECterm sequences for title bar control, and with an appropriate font it supports the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode. It also has some nifty features like rectangular selection and NetHack keypad mode.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pterm

Install pterm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pterm

Install pterm 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 pterm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pterm

How To Uninstall pterm on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove pterm

Uninstall pterm And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pterm

Remove pterm Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge pterm

Remove pterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pterm

Dependencies

pterm have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libcairo2
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk-3-0
• libpango-1.0-0
• libpangocairo-1.0-0
• libx11-6

References

• pterm website

Summary

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