How To Install kcharselect on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kcharselect on Kali Linux.
What is kcharselect
kcharselect is:
KCharSelect is a utility for finding special characters which are not available on the keyboard. It can search for characters by Unicode number, display characters in any font, and copy characters to the clipboard so they can be pasted into documents.
This package is part of the KDE utilities module.
There are three methods to install kcharselect 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 kcharselect Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install kcharselect using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kcharselectInstall kcharselect Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install kcharselect using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kcharselectInstall kcharselect 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install kcharselect using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kcharselectHow To Uninstall kcharselect on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the kcharselect package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kcharselectUninstall kcharselect And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kcharselect and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kcharselectRemove kcharselect Configurations and Data
To remove kcharselect configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kcharselectRemove kcharselect configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kcharselect configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kcharselectDependencies
kcharselect have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libkf5bookmarks5
- libkf5configcore5
- libkf5configgui5
- libkf5configwidgets5
- libkf5coreaddons5
- libkf5crash5
- libkf5i18n5
- libkf5widgetsaddons5
- libkf5xmlgui5
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5widgets5
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kcharselect package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
