How To Install drumstick-tools on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install drumstick-tools
on Kali Linux.
What is drumstick-tools
drumstick-tools is:
This library is a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library sequencer interface, using Qt5 objects, idioms and style. ALSA sequencer provides software support for MIDI technology on Linux. Complementary classes for OVE and WRK file processing are also included.
This package provides utilities shipped with the library:
- drumstick-buildsmf: Standard MIDI File creation from scratch.
- drumstick-dumpgrid: Simple Qt drum sequencer.
- drumstick-dumpmid: Write ALSA MIDI events to STDOUT.
- drumstick-dumpsmf: Write MIDI events from a MIDI file to STDOUT.
- drumstick-dumpwrk: Write MIDI events from a Cakewalk WRK file to STDOUT.
- drumstick-guiplayer: Simple Qt MIDI file player.
- drumstick-metronome: Headless MIDI metronome.
- drumstick-playsmf: Headless MIDI file player.
- drumstick-sysinfo: Display information about ALSA MIDI.
- drumstick-timertest: Test performance of the ALSA timer.
- drumstick-vpiano: Virtual Piano Keyboard GUI application.
There are three methods to install drumstick-tools
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 drumstick-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install drumstick-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install drumstick-tools
Install drumstick-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install drumstick-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install drumstick-tools
Install drumstick-tools 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 drumstick-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install drumstick-tools
How To Uninstall drumstick-tools on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the drumstick-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove drumstick-tools
Uninstall drumstick-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall drumstick-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove drumstick-tools
Remove drumstick-tools Configurations and Data
To remove drumstick-tools
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge drumstick-tools
Remove drumstick-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove drumstick-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge drumstick-tools
Dependencies
drumstick-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install drumstick-tools
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.