How To Install thunar-archive-plugin on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install thunar-archive-plugin on Kali Linux.
What is thunar-archive-plugin
thunar-archive-plugin is:
This plugin allows one to extract and create archive from inside the Thunar file manager. At the moment it uses file-roller but will use xarchiver in the future.
There are three methods to install thunar-archive-plugin 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 thunar-archive-plugin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install thunar-archive-plugin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install thunar-archive-pluginInstall thunar-archive-plugin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install thunar-archive-plugin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install thunar-archive-pluginInstall thunar-archive-plugin 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install thunar-archive-plugin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install thunar-archive-pluginHow To Uninstall thunar-archive-plugin on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the thunar-archive-plugin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove thunar-archive-pluginUninstall thunar-archive-plugin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall thunar-archive-plugin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove thunar-archive-pluginRemove thunar-archive-plugin Configurations and Data
To remove thunar-archive-plugin configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge thunar-archive-pluginRemove thunar-archive-plugin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove thunar-archive-plugin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge thunar-archive-pluginDependencies
thunar-archive-plugin have the following dependencies:
- thunar
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libexo-2-0
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libthunarx-3-0
- libxfce4util7
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install thunar-archive-plugin package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.