Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bleachbit
on Kali Linux.
What is bleachbit
bleachbit is:
BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain
privacy, and remove junk. It removes cache, Internet history, temporary files,
cookies, and broken shortcuts.
It handles cleaning of Adobe Reader, Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash,
GIMP, Google Earth, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, rpmbuild,
Second Life Viewer, VIM, XChat, and more.
Beyond simply erasing junk files, BleachBit wipes free disk space (to hide
previously deleted files for privacy and to improve compression of images),
vacuums Firefox databases (to improve performance without deleting data), and
securely shreds arbitrary files.
There are three methods to install bleachbit
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 bleachbit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bleachbit
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bleachbit
Install bleachbit Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bleachbit
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bleachbit
Install bleachbit 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 bleachbit
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bleachbit
How To Uninstall bleachbit on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the bleachbit
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bleachbit
Uninstall bleachbit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bleachbit
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bleachbit
Remove bleachbit Configurations and Data
To remove bleachbit
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bleachbit
Remove bleachbit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bleachbit
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bleachbit
Dependencies
bleachbit have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bleachbit
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.