How To Install alsa-tools-gui on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-tools-gui on Kali Linux. alsa-tools-gui is GUI based ALSA utilities for specific hardware

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-tools-gui on Kali Linux.

What is alsa-tools-gui

alsa-tools-gui is:

A collection of GUI based ALSA utilities for specific sound hardware:

echomixer - control tool for Echoaudio soundcards envy24control - control tool for Envy24 (ice1712) based soundcards hdajackretask - retask jacks on HDA Intel hardware hdspconf - GUI program to control the Hammerfall HDSP Alsa Settings. hdspmixer - tool to control the advanced routing features of the RME Hammerfall DSP. rmedigicontrol - control tool for RME Digi32 and RME Digi96 soundcards

There are three methods to install alsa-tools-gui 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 alsa-tools-gui Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install alsa-tools-gui using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install alsa-tools-gui

Install alsa-tools-gui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install alsa-tools-gui using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install alsa-tools-gui

Install alsa-tools-gui 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 alsa-tools-gui using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install alsa-tools-gui

How To Uninstall alsa-tools-gui on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the alsa-tools-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove alsa-tools-gui

Uninstall alsa-tools-gui And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove alsa-tools-gui

Remove alsa-tools-gui Configurations and Data

To remove alsa-tools-gui configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge alsa-tools-gui

Remove alsa-tools-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove alsa-tools-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alsa-tools-gui

Dependencies

alsa-tools-gui have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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