How To Install gcrystal on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gcrystal
on Kali Linux.
What is gcrystal
gcrystal is:
GNOME Crystal is a light model visualizer for crystal-structures. It is based on the GNOME Chemistry Utils and should display models of all sorts of crystal microscopic structures using OpenGL.
There are three methods to install gcrystal
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 gcrystal Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gcrystal
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gcrystal
Install gcrystal Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gcrystal
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gcrystal
Install gcrystal 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 gcrystal
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gcrystal
How To Uninstall gcrystal on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the gcrystal
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gcrystal
Uninstall gcrystal And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gcrystal
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gcrystal
Remove gcrystal Configurations and Data
To remove gcrystal
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gcrystal
Remove gcrystal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gcrystal
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gcrystal
Dependencies
gcrystal have the following dependencies:
- chemical-mime-data
- libgcu0v5
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libglib2.0-0
- libgoffice-0.10-10
- libgtk-3-0
- libstdc++6
- libxml2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gcrystal
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.