How To Install sway-backgrounds on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sway-backgrounds on Kali Linux.

What is sway-backgrounds

sway-backgrounds is:

sway (SirCmpwn’s Wayland compositor) is a tiling Wayland compositor and a
drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your
existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3’s features, plus a few
extras. This means it is a minimalist, tiling window manager.

This package contains a set of desktop backgrounds that come with sway.

There are three methods to install sway-backgrounds 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 sway-backgrounds Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install sway-backgrounds

Install sway-backgrounds Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install sway-backgrounds

Install sway-backgrounds 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 sway-backgrounds using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sway-backgrounds

How To Uninstall sway-backgrounds on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the sway-backgrounds package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove sway-backgrounds

Uninstall sway-backgrounds And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sway-backgrounds

Remove sway-backgrounds Configurations and Data

To remove sway-backgrounds configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sway-backgrounds

Remove sway-backgrounds configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sway-backgrounds

Dependencies

sway-backgrounds have the following dependencies:

References

• sway-backgrounds website

Summary

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