How To Install education-desktop-lxde on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install education-desktop-lxde on Kali Linux.

What is education-desktop-lxde

education-desktop-lxde is:

This metapackage depends on various LXDE components and lightweight desktop applications that are useful for teachers and their students.

There are three methods to install education-desktop-lxde 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 education-desktop-lxde Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install education-desktop-lxde

Install education-desktop-lxde Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install education-desktop-lxde using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install education-desktop-lxde

Install education-desktop-lxde 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 education-desktop-lxde using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install education-desktop-lxde

How To Uninstall education-desktop-lxde on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the education-desktop-lxde package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove education-desktop-lxde

Uninstall education-desktop-lxde And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove education-desktop-lxde

Remove education-desktop-lxde Configurations and Data

To remove education-desktop-lxde configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge education-desktop-lxde

Remove education-desktop-lxde configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge education-desktop-lxde

Dependencies

education-desktop-lxde have the following dependencies:

• education-tasks

References

• education-desktop-lxde website

Summary

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