How To Install libmatroska-dev on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmatroska-dev on Kali Linux. libmatroska-dev is extensible open standard audio/video container format (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmatroska-dev on Kali Linux.

What is libmatroska-dev

libmatroska-dev is:

Matroska is aiming to become the standard of Multimedia Container Formats one day. It is based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), a kind of binary version of XML. This way the significant advantages in terms of future format extensibility are gained without breaking file support in old parsers.

This package contains the header files and static libraries needed to compile applications that use libmatroska.

There are three methods to install libmatroska-dev 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 libmatroska-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmatroska-dev

Install libmatroska-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libmatroska-dev

Install libmatroska-dev 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 libmatroska-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmatroska-dev

How To Uninstall libmatroska-dev on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libmatroska-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmatroska-dev

Uninstall libmatroska-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmatroska-dev

Remove libmatroska-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libmatroska-dev

Remove libmatroska-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmatroska-dev

Dependencies

libmatroska-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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