How To Install recollgui on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is recollgui

recollgui is:

This package contains main recoll GUI for configuring, controlling and querying recoll indexes.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install recollgui

Install recollgui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install recollgui

Install recollgui 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 recollgui using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install recollgui

How To Uninstall recollgui on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove recollgui

Uninstall recollgui And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove recollgui

Remove recollgui Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge recollgui

Remove recollgui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge recollgui

Dependencies

recollgui have the following dependencies:

• recollcmd
• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libqt5core5a
• libqt5gui5
• libqt5printsupport5
• libqt5webkit5
• libqt5widgets5
• libstdc++6

References

• recollgui website

Summary

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