How To Install wm-icons on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wm-icons on Kali Linux.

What is wm-icons

wm-icons is:

The Window Manager Icons is a set of generic icons for use by window managers in a graphical environment. It is an efficient icon distribution designed to be standardized and configurable. It includes several themed icon sets, a template icon set to help building new themed icon sets, scripts and configurations for several window managers.

wm-icons comes with different styles and common window manager sizes (small menu icons, larger desktop icons, etc.) as well as advice and setup for integrating them with various window managers such as FVWM, SCWM, etc. Each set consists of an icon in that size and style for each of about 84 different generic categories (“game”, “editor”, “file-manager”, etc).

There are three methods to install wm-icons 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 wm-icons Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wm-icons

Install wm-icons Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wm-icons

Install wm-icons 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 wm-icons using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wm-icons

How To Uninstall wm-icons on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the wm-icons package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wm-icons

Uninstall wm-icons And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wm-icons

Remove wm-icons Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge wm-icons

Remove wm-icons configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wm-icons

Dependencies

wm-icons have the following dependencies:

References

• wm-icons website

Summary

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