How To Install aterm on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is aterm

aterm is:

Aterm was a fork of rxvt; its changes have long since been merged into
rxvt-unicode. This is a dummy transitional package; once you’ve migrated
your session startup to not call /usr/bin/aterm anymore, it can be safely
removed.

There are three methods to install aterm 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 aterm Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install aterm

Install aterm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install aterm

Install aterm 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 aterm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install aterm

How To Uninstall aterm on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove aterm

Uninstall aterm And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove aterm

Remove aterm Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge aterm

Remove aterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aterm

Dependencies

aterm have the following dependencies:

• rxvt-unicode

References

• aterm website

Summary

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