How To Install libgavl-doc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgavl-doc on Kali Linux. libgavl-doc is low level audio and video library - documentation files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgavl-doc on Kali Linux.

What is libgavl-doc

libgavl-doc is:

Gavl handles all the details of audio and video formats like colorspaces, samplerates, multichannel configurations etc. It provides standardized definitions for those formats as well as container structures for carrying audio samples or video images inside an application.

In addition, it handles the sometimes ugly task to convert between all these formats and provides some elementary operations (copying, scaling, alpha blending etc).

This package contains the documentation about Gavl.

There are three methods to install libgavl-doc 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 libgavl-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libgavl-doc

Install libgavl-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libgavl-doc

Install libgavl-doc 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 libgavl-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgavl-doc

How To Uninstall libgavl-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libgavl-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgavl-doc

Uninstall libgavl-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgavl-doc

Remove libgavl-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libgavl-doc

Remove libgavl-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgavl-doc

Dependencies

libgavl-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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