How To Install tcvt on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tcvt

tcvt is:

Your screen is getting wider. Keeping track of long lines gets harder. Space on the right hand side of the screen is completely blank due to short lines. Are you struggling with these? Then tcvt is for you.

The two column virtual terminal, short tcvt, can be used to vertically split a single terminal in two (or more) columns. This is similar to a two column layout in printing, just for regular terminals.

Note that this is not about placing two terminals next to each other. This task is already solved by tiling window managers, screen, tmux and splitvt. What tcvt does is create a single very tall terminal with two columns.

Please note that the current version does not support UTF-8 yet. Experimental patches are available in the utf8 branch of the upstream repository.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tcvt

Install tcvt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tcvt

Install tcvt 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 tcvt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tcvt

How To Uninstall tcvt on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tcvt

Uninstall tcvt And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tcvt

Remove tcvt Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tcvt

Remove tcvt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tcvt

Dependencies

tcvt have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• tcvt website

Summary

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