How To Install remind on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is remind

remind is:

Remind allows you to remind yourself of upcoming events and appointments. Each reminder or alarm can consist of a message sent to standard output, or a program to be executed.

It also features: sophisticated date calculation, moon phases, sunrise/sunset, Hebrew calendar, alarms, PostScript output, tcl/tk front-end and proper handling of holidays.

Reminders can be created by the remind scripting language or by using the graphical frontend package “tkremind”.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install remind

Install remind Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install remind

Install remind 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 remind using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install remind

How To Uninstall remind on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove remind

Uninstall remind And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove remind

Remove remind Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge remind

Remove remind configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge remind

Dependencies

remind have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• remind website

Summary

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