How To Install wlcs on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install wlcs on Kali Linux. wlcs is Wayland Conformance Suites

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wlcs on Kali Linux.

What is wlcs

wlcs is:

wlcs aspires to be a protocol-conformance-verifying test suite usable by Wayland compositor implementations.

This package contains the headers necessary for a Wayland compositor to provide the integration module needed to run wlcs tests, and the test runner binary needed to run the tests against the compositor.

There are three methods to install wlcs 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 wlcs Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wlcs

Install wlcs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install wlcs using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install wlcs

Install wlcs 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 wlcs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wlcs

How To Uninstall wlcs on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the wlcs package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wlcs

Uninstall wlcs And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wlcs

Remove wlcs Configurations and Data

To remove wlcs configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wlcs

Remove wlcs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wlcs

Dependencies

wlcs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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