How To Install appstream-glib-doc on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install appstream-glib-doc on Kali Linux.

What is appstream-glib-doc

appstream-glib-doc is:

AppStream is a cross-distribution effort for creating and sharing
metadata about software components available in the package repositories
of a distribution.

This package provides developer documentation for the
libappstream-glib library.

There are three methods to install appstream-glib-doc 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 appstream-glib-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install appstream-glib-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install appstream-glib-doc

Install appstream-glib-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install appstream-glib-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install appstream-glib-doc

Install appstream-glib-doc 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 appstream-glib-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install appstream-glib-doc

How To Uninstall appstream-glib-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the appstream-glib-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove appstream-glib-doc

Uninstall appstream-glib-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove appstream-glib-doc

Remove appstream-glib-doc Configurations and Data

To remove appstream-glib-doc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge appstream-glib-doc

Remove appstream-glib-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove appstream-glib-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge appstream-glib-doc

Dependencies

appstream-glib-doc have the following dependencies:

References

• appstream-glib-doc website

Summary

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