How To Install rofi on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rofi
on Kali Linux.
What is rofi
rofi is:
rofi can act as an application launcher, window switcher, ssh launcher and dmenu replacement.
Included features:
- Full (configurable) keyboard navigation
- Type to filter
- Tokenized: Type any word in any order to filter
- Case insensitive
- UTF-8 enabled
- UTF-8 aware string collating
- intl. keyboard support (`e -> ?)
- Pango font rendering
- RTL language support
- Window Switcher
- I3 support (requires i3-wm to be installed)
- EWMH compatible WM
- Run dialog
- Desktop File Run dialog
- SSH launcher
- History based ordering based on use. (optional)
- Levenshtein distance ordering of matches. (optional)
- Drop in dmenu replacement (with many added improvements).
- Can be easily extended using scripts.
There are three methods to install rofi
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 rofi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install rofi
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install rofi Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install rofi
using apt
by running the following command:
Install rofi 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.
After updating apt database, We can install rofi
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall rofi on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the rofi
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall rofi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rofi
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove rofi Configurations and Data
To remove rofi
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove rofi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rofi
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
rofi have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libglib2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- librsvg2-2
- libstartup-notification0
- libxcb-ewmh2
- libxcb-icccm4
- libxcb-randr0
- libxcb-util1
- libxcb-xinerama0
- libxcb-xkb1
- libxcb-xrm0
- libxcb1
- libxkbcommon-x11-0
- libxkbcommon0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rofi
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.