Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install surf
on Kali Linux.
What is surf
surf is:
surf is a simple web browser based on WebKit/GTK+. It is able to display
websites and follow links. It supports the XEmbed protocol which makes it
possible to embed it in another application. Furthermore, one can point surf to
another URI by setting its XProperties.
There are three methods to install surf
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 surf Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install surf
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install surf
Install surf Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install surf
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install surf
Install surf 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 surf
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install surf
How To Uninstall surf on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the surf
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove surf
Uninstall surf And Its Dependencies
To uninstall surf
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove surf
Remove surf Configurations and Data
To remove surf
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge surf
Remove surf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove surf
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge surf
Dependencies
surf have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libgcr-base-3-1
- libgcr-ui-3-1
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
- libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
- libx11-6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install surf
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.