How To Install budgie-applications-menu-applet on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install budgie-applications-menu-applet on Kali Linux. budgie-applications-menu-applet is Stylish Applications Menu for Budgie-Desktop

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install budgie-applications-menu-applet on Kali Linux.

What is budgie-applications-menu-applet

budgie-applications-menu-applet is:

Budgie-Desktop is a GTK+ based desktop environment which focuses on simplicity and elegance. It provides a traditional desktop metaphor based interface utilising customisable panel based menu driven system. Budgie-Desktop is written from scratch utilising many GNOME based sub-systems such as GNOME-Session and Mutter.

The application-menu is a stylish panel applet that displays applications in different views - grid and list. Weblinks typed into the search bar can be opened in your default browser. Applications that have additional desktop options show via a right-click menu. Applications with associated actions show those actions are additional searchable entries.

With the optional zeitgeist package search entries learn your menu actions and results are automatically biased to allow you to find and execute applications quickly.

Variety of options are available including grid sizing and displaying a powerstrip.

There are three methods to install budgie-applications-menu-applet 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 budgie-applications-menu-applet Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install budgie-applications-menu-applet using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install budgie-applications-menu-applet

Install budgie-applications-menu-applet Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install budgie-applications-menu-applet using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install budgie-applications-menu-applet

Install budgie-applications-menu-applet 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 budgie-applications-menu-applet using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install budgie-applications-menu-applet

How To Uninstall budgie-applications-menu-applet on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the budgie-applications-menu-applet package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove budgie-applications-menu-applet

Uninstall budgie-applications-menu-applet And Its Dependencies

To uninstall budgie-applications-menu-applet and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove budgie-applications-menu-applet

Remove budgie-applications-menu-applet Configurations and Data

To remove budgie-applications-menu-applet configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge budgie-applications-menu-applet

Remove budgie-applications-menu-applet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove budgie-applications-menu-applet configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge budgie-applications-menu-applet

Dependencies

budgie-applications-menu-applet have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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