How To Install tomboy-ng on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tomboy-ng on Kali Linux.
What is tomboy-ng
tomboy-ng is:
tomboy-ng notes allows easy management of a large or small set of notes. Notes can contain a range of font sizes, bold, italic and highlight. Available for Linux, Windows amd Mac and easy sync between them. This is the Qt5 based version.
There are three methods to install tomboy-ng 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 tomboy-ng Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install tomboy-ng using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tomboy-ngInstall tomboy-ng Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install tomboy-ng using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tomboy-ngInstall tomboy-ng 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 tomboy-ng using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tomboy-ngHow To Uninstall tomboy-ng on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the tomboy-ng package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tomboy-ngUninstall tomboy-ng And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tomboy-ng and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tomboy-ngRemove tomboy-ng Configurations and Data
To remove tomboy-ng configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tomboy-ngRemove tomboy-ng configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tomboy-ng configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tomboy-ngDependencies
tomboy-ng have the following dependencies:
- libqt5pas1
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libnotify4
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libx11-6
- wmctrl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tomboy-ng package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.