How To Install transmission-remote-gtk on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is transmission-remote-gtk

transmission-remote-gtk is:

transmission-remote-gtk is a GTK+ interface for controlling the Transmission BitTorrent daemon. It is a full featured client, providing the ability to upload, queue, and delete torrent files, monitor downloads, and adjust speed limits.

There are three methods to install transmission-remote-gtk 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-remote-gtk 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-remote-gtk using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install transmission-remote-gtk

Install transmission-remote-gtk Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install transmission-remote-gtk

Install transmission-remote-gtk 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-remote-gtk using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install transmission-remote-gtk

How To Uninstall transmission-remote-gtk on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove transmission-remote-gtk

Uninstall transmission-remote-gtk And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove transmission-remote-gtk

Remove transmission-remote-gtk Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge transmission-remote-gtk

Remove transmission-remote-gtk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge transmission-remote-gtk

Dependencies

transmission-remote-gtk have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libcurl4
• libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
• libgeoip1
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk-3-0
• libjson-glib-1.0-0
• libnotify4
• libpango-1.0-0
• libproxy1v5

References

• transmission-remote-gtk website

Summary

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