Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ayatana-indicator-notifications on Kali Linux.
What is ayatana-indicator-notifications
ayatana-indicator-notifications is:
An Ayatana Indicator applet to display recent notifications sent to a
notification daemon such as notify-osd.
Using Ayatana Indicators Settings in the desktop environment’s control
center, you can blacklist certain notifications, so that they are not
shown anymore by the notifications indicator.
Ayatana Indicators are only available on desktop environments that
provide a renderer for system indicators (such as MATE, Xfce, Lomiri,
etc.).
There are three methods to install ayatana-indicator-notifications 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 ayatana-indicator-notifications Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ayatana-indicator-notifications using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ayatana-indicator-notificationsInstall ayatana-indicator-notifications Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ayatana-indicator-notifications using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ayatana-indicator-notificationsInstall ayatana-indicator-notifications 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 ayatana-indicator-notifications using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ayatana-indicator-notifications
How To Uninstall ayatana-indicator-notifications on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ayatana-indicator-notifications package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ayatana-indicator-notifications
Uninstall ayatana-indicator-notifications And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ayatana-indicator-notifications and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ayatana-indicator-notifications
Remove ayatana-indicator-notifications Configurations and Data
To remove ayatana-indicator-notifications configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ayatana-indicator-notifications
Remove ayatana-indicator-notifications configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ayatana-indicator-notifications configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ayatana-indicator-notifications
Dependencies
ayatana-indicator-notifications have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libglib2.0-0
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- init-system-helpers
- ayatana-indicator-common
- libglib2.0-bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ayatana-indicator-notifications package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
