Install and Uninstall in Linux: That is the Question (part 2)

As mentioned earlier in a previous post, installing packages can be complicated.

I just faced a new challenge, when trying to install WPS Office. First of all, when you access to the WPS download page, you can see a generic WPS Office for Linux link in there.

After clicking in Download, you have different options for Alpha21 for this year and last year. The options are .deb version and .rpm:

Just a bit of background on this RPM packages are precompiled and built for Red Hat Based Linux Distribution, and can be installed only using yum, Zypper and RPM based package managers,

Since Kali Linux is based on Debian, you cannot install an RPM package directly using apt or dpkg package managers.

As you can see in th elist above, the version for Debian is amd64. Doing an uname -a or uname -m, I can see my operating system is configured in x86_64 mode. For further information, please check this page here, that is quite handy...

Therefore, here are the steps to download and install WPS for x86_64:

1) download the version for amd64.deb listed above 2) rename it to something shorter, like wps-office.deb 3) sudo dpkg -i wps-office.deb 4) sudo apt-get -f install

This worked for me well.