Installing terminator on Kali Linux

Hi folks, i just moved on to kali-linux from backtrack. Offline installation of drivers for the broadcom wireless card took a lot of time. However in this page i am writing about how to install terminator on kali-linux.

What is terminator?

Originally created and developed for a long time by Chris Jones, the goal of this project is to produce a useful tool for arranging terminals.

Terminator is pre-included in the backtrack intallation, however is not included in kali linux (1.0.9).
After a long search for how to install terminator on kali, i found the solution. Which i would like to document here.

The first thing that a debian user would do is apt-get, when i tried i got the following error.

# apt-get install terminator
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package terminator 

 
apt-get uses is a tool which is used to handle software installation and removal. It synchronizes the information about the latest softwares from the location mentioned in the configuration file /etc/apt/source.list

Hence the first thing we will do is update this source.list file.
With root privileges open this file, it should look something like follows

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U P D A T I N G  S O U R C E S

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surajk@kali:~/Desktop/terminator-0.97$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot amd64
LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20140822-15:33]/ kali contrib main non-free
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot amd64
LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20140822-15:33]/ kali contrib main non-free
## Security updates
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free 

  

Add the following line to the file:
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main 

 
Then run the command apt-get update
This command will update the required package information.

This may take some time.

root@kali:/home/surajk/Desktop/terminator-0.97# apt-get update
Hit http://http.kali.org kali Release.gpg
Hit http://security.kali.org kali/updates Release.gpg
Hit http://http.kali.org kali Release
Hit http://security.kali.org kali/updates Release
Get:1 http://http.kali.org kali/main amd64 Packages [8,450 kB]
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/non-free Translation-en
Hit http://security.kali.org kali/updates/main amd64 Packages
...
Reading package lists... Done

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I N S T A L L I N G  T E R M I N A T O R
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Now run the command
apt-get install terminator

root@kali:/home/surajk/Desktop/terminator-0.97# apt-get install terminator
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libart-2.0-2 libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libgnomecanvas2-0
libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libkeybinder0 libvte-common
libvte9 python-gconf python-gnome2 python-keybinder python-pyorbit python-vte
Suggested packages:
python-gnome2-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libart-2.0-2 libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libgnomecanvas2-0
libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libkeybinder0 libvte-common
libvte9 python-gconf python-gnome2 python-keybinder python-pyorbit python-vte
terminator
0 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 0 to remove and 131 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,667 kB of archives.
After this operation, 16.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1 http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main libart-2.0-2 amd64 2.3.21-2 [72.7 kB]
Get:2 http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main libgnomecanvas2-common all 2.30.3-1.2 [133 kB]
......
...
..

Setting up libvte-common (1:0.28.2-5) ...
Setting up libvte9 (1:0.28.2-5) ...
Setting up python-gconf (2.28.1+dfsg-1) ...
Setting up python-pyorbit (2.24.0-6+b1) ...
Setting up python-gnome2 (2.28.1+dfsg-1) ...
Setting up python-keybinder (0.2.2-4) ...
Setting up python-vte (1:0.28.2-5) ...
Setting up terminator (0.95-1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/terminator to provide /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator (x-terminal-emulator) in auto mode
Processing triggers for python-support ...

This should start the installation of terminator and all required depended packages.
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Finding this out took a lot of time for me, hope this helps someone.
I am new to kali, and have come back after a long time to linux. Any comments, improvements or suggestions are appreciated.