How To Install abiword-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is abiword-common

abiword-common is:

AbiWord is a full-featured, efficient word processing application.
It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks, and
is extensible with a variety of plugins.

This package contains the common files that are used on all architectures
without modification.

There are three methods to install abiword-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 abiword-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 abiword-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install abiword-common

Install abiword-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install abiword-common

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

sudo aptitude -y install abiword-common

How To Uninstall abiword-common on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove abiword-common

Uninstall abiword-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove abiword-common

Remove abiword-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge abiword-common

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

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

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

Dependencies

abiword-common have the following dependencies:

References

• abiword-common website

Summary

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