How To Install abiword on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is abiword

abiword 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 includes many of the available import/export plugins allowing
AbiWord to interact with ODT, WordPerfect, and other formats. It also
includes tools plugins, offering live collaboration with AbiWord users
on Linux and Windows (using TCP or Jabber/XMPP), web translation and
dictionary support, and more.

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

sudo apt-get -y install abiword

Install abiword Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install abiword

Install abiword 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install abiword

How To Uninstall abiword on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove abiword

Uninstall abiword And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove abiword

Remove abiword Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge abiword

Remove abiword configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge abiword

Dependencies

abiword have the following dependencies:

• abiword-common
• gsfonts
• libabiword-3.0
• libc6
• libdbus-1-3
• libdbus-glib-1-2
• libgcc-s1
• libgcrypt20
• libglib2.0-0
• libgnutls30
• libgoffice-0.10-10
• libgsf-1-114
• libgtk-3-0
• libjpeg62-turbo
• libloudmouth1-0
• libots0
• libpng16-16
• librdf0
• libreadline8
• librevenge-0.0-0
• libsoup2.4-1
• libstdc++6
• libtelepathy-glib0
• libtidy5deb1

References

• abiword website

Summary

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