How To Install transmission-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install transmission-common on Kali Linux.

What is transmission-common

transmission-common is:

Transmission is a set of lightweight BitTorrent clients (in GUI, CLI and daemon form). All its incarnations feature a very simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end.

This package contains the common files for the different transmission versions.

There are three methods to install transmission-common 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 transmission-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install transmission-common

Install transmission-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install transmission-common

Install transmission-common 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 transmission-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install transmission-common

How To Uninstall transmission-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the transmission-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove transmission-common

Uninstall transmission-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove transmission-common

Remove transmission-common Configurations and Data

To remove transmission-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge transmission-common

Remove transmission-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge transmission-common

Dependencies

transmission-common have the following dependencies:

References

• transmission-common website

Summary

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