How To Install evince-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install evince-common on Kali Linux.

What is evince-common

evince-common is:

Evince is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DjVu, DVI, Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks.

This package contains architecture-independent files for evince.

There are three methods to install evince-common 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 evince-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install evince-common

Install evince-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install evince-common

Install evince-common 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 evince-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install evince-common

How To Uninstall evince-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the evince-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove evince-common

Uninstall evince-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove evince-common

Remove evince-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge evince-common

Remove evince-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge evince-common

Dependencies

evince-common have the following dependencies:

References

• evince-common website

Summary

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