How To Install rclone-browser on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rclone-browser on Kali Linux.

What is rclone-browser

rclone-browser is:

This is a GUI for rclone, which is a program to sync files and directories between the local file system and a variety of commercial cloud storage providers.

There are three methods to install rclone-browser 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 rclone-browser Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rclone-browser

Install rclone-browser Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rclone-browser

Install rclone-browser 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 rclone-browser using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rclone-browser

How To Uninstall rclone-browser on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the rclone-browser package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rclone-browser

Uninstall rclone-browser And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rclone-browser

Remove rclone-browser Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge rclone-browser

Remove rclone-browser configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rclone-browser

Dependencies

rclone-browser have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libqt5core5a
• libqt5gui5
• libqt5network5
• libqt5widgets5
• libstdc++6
• rclone

References

• rclone-browser website

Summary

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