How To Install wayland-protocols on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wayland-protocols on Kali Linux.

What is wayland-protocols

wayland-protocols is:

Wayland protocols that add functionality not available in the Wayland core protocol. Such protocols either add completely new functionality, or extend the functionality of some other protocol either in Wayland core, or some other protocol in wayland-protocols.

There are three methods to install wayland-protocols 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 wayland-protocols Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wayland-protocols

Install wayland-protocols Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wayland-protocols

Install wayland-protocols 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 wayland-protocols using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wayland-protocols

How To Uninstall wayland-protocols on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the wayland-protocols package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wayland-protocols

Uninstall wayland-protocols And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wayland-protocols

Remove wayland-protocols Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge wayland-protocols

Remove wayland-protocols configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wayland-protocols

Dependencies

wayland-protocols have the following dependencies:

References

• wayland-protocols website

Summary

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