How To Install compiz-plugins-experimental on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install compiz-plugins-experimental on Kali Linux. compiz-plugins-experimental is Compiz Reloaded plugins - unsupported collection

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install compiz-plugins-experimental on Kali Linux.

What is compiz-plugins-experimental

compiz-plugins-experimental is:

Compiz Reloaded is the result of the re-unification of the Beryl-project and the community around the Compiz Window Manager. It seeks to provide an easy and fun-to-use windowing environment, allowing use of the graphics hardware to provide impressive effects, amazing speed and unrivalled usefulness

This package provides an extended collection of plugins, which have received the least amount of review and are the most likely to be problematic and unstable on your system.

There are three methods to install compiz-plugins-experimental 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 compiz-plugins-experimental Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install compiz-plugins-experimental

Install compiz-plugins-experimental Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install compiz-plugins-experimental using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install compiz-plugins-experimental

Install compiz-plugins-experimental 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 compiz-plugins-experimental using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install compiz-plugins-experimental

How To Uninstall compiz-plugins-experimental on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the compiz-plugins-experimental package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove compiz-plugins-experimental

Uninstall compiz-plugins-experimental And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove compiz-plugins-experimental

Remove compiz-plugins-experimental Configurations and Data

To remove compiz-plugins-experimental configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge compiz-plugins-experimental

Remove compiz-plugins-experimental configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove compiz-plugins-experimental configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge compiz-plugins-experimental

Dependencies

compiz-plugins-experimental have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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