How To Install ratpoison on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is ratpoison

ratpoison is:

ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen.

The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames. All windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your precious screen real estate.

All interaction with the window manager is done through keystrokes. ratpoison has a prefix map to minimize key clobbering.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ratpoison

Install ratpoison Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ratpoison

Install ratpoison 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 ratpoison using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ratpoison

How To Uninstall ratpoison on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ratpoison

Uninstall ratpoison And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ratpoison

Remove ratpoison Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ratpoison

Remove ratpoison configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ratpoison

Dependencies

ratpoison have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libx11-6
• libxft2
• libxrandr2

References

• ratpoison website

Summary

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