How To Install metacity-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install metacity-common on Kali Linux.

What is metacity-common

metacity-common is:

Metacity is a small window manager, using GTK+ to do everything.

As the author says, metacity is a “Boring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios.”

This package contains the shared files.

There are three methods to install metacity-common 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 metacity-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install metacity-common

Install metacity-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install metacity-common

Install metacity-common 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 metacity-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install metacity-common

How To Uninstall metacity-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the metacity-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove metacity-common

Uninstall metacity-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove metacity-common

Remove metacity-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge metacity-common

Remove metacity-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge metacity-common

Dependencies

metacity-common have the following dependencies:

• dconf-gsettings-backend

References

• metacity-common website

Summary

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