How To Install seetxt on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is seetxt

seetxt is:

See is a lightweight Linux text file and man page viewer. It maintains “document meta-data” for each user, allowing them to automatically keep bookmarks and highlights for read-only system files. It also has a “server mode” so that command line requests can be sent to a single running server rather than starting multiple instances. Other features include hypertext-style apropos (man page) searches, file monitoring, regular expressions, command history, and nice little toggle lights on the interface for the server and file monitor.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install seetxt

Install seetxt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install seetxt

Install seetxt 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 seetxt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install seetxt

How To Uninstall seetxt on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove seetxt

Uninstall seetxt And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove seetxt

Remove seetxt Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge seetxt

Remove seetxt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge seetxt

Dependencies

seetxt have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-0
• libpango-1.0-0

References

• seetxt website

Summary

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