Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stterm
on Kali Linux.
What is stterm
stterm is:
st is a terminal emulator from the suckless project with a focus on
simplicity, clarity and frugality. The project’s philosophy is about
keeping things simple, minimal and usable.
st supports most VT10X escape sequences, serial lines, XIM, utmp via
utmp(1), clipboard handling, mouse and keyboard shortcuts, UTF-8, wide
characters, resize, 256 colors, true colors, antialiased fonts (using
fontconfig), fallback fonts, and line drawing. It does not provide
a scrollback buffer: users are encouraged to use a terminal multiplexter.
This Debian package is called ‘stterm’ for historical reasons.
There are three methods to install stterm
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 stterm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stterm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stterm
Install stterm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stterm
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stterm
Install stterm 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 stterm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stterm
How To Uninstall stterm on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the stterm
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stterm
Uninstall stterm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stterm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stterm
Remove stterm Configurations and Data
To remove stterm
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stterm
Remove stterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stterm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stterm
Dependencies
stterm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stterm
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.