How To Install xdg-desktop-portal-dev on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xdg-desktop-portal-dev on Kali Linux.

What is xdg-desktop-portal-dev

xdg-desktop-portal-dev is:

xdg-desktop-portal provides a portal frontend service for Flatpak, Snap, and possibly other desktop containment/sandboxing frameworks. This service is made available to the sandboxed application, and provides mediated D-Bus interfaces for file access, URI opening, printing and similar desktop integration features. See the xdg-desktop-portal package’s description for more details.

This package contains development files for backends such as xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.

There are three methods to install xdg-desktop-portal-dev 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 xdg-desktop-portal-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install xdg-desktop-portal-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install xdg-desktop-portal-dev

Install xdg-desktop-portal-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install xdg-desktop-portal-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install xdg-desktop-portal-dev

Install xdg-desktop-portal-dev 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 xdg-desktop-portal-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install xdg-desktop-portal-dev

How To Uninstall xdg-desktop-portal-dev on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the xdg-desktop-portal-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove xdg-desktop-portal-dev

Uninstall xdg-desktop-portal-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall xdg-desktop-portal-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove xdg-desktop-portal-dev

Remove xdg-desktop-portal-dev Configurations and Data

To remove xdg-desktop-portal-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge xdg-desktop-portal-dev

Remove xdg-desktop-portal-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove xdg-desktop-portal-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xdg-desktop-portal-dev

Dependencies

xdg-desktop-portal-dev have the following dependencies:

References

• xdg-desktop-portal-dev website

Summary

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