How To Install aom-tools on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aom-tools on Kali Linux.
What is aom-tools
aom-tools is:
AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open and royalty free video encoding format optimized for the Internet and the successor of VP9. aom is the reference encoder and decoder implementation published by the Alliance for Open Media.
This package contains the command line encoding and decoding tools.
There are three methods to install aom-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 aom-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install aom-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install aom-toolsInstall aom-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install aom-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install aom-toolsInstall aom-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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install aom-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install aom-toolsHow To Uninstall aom-tools on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the aom-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove aom-toolsUninstall aom-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall aom-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove aom-toolsRemove aom-tools Configurations and Data
To remove aom-tools configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge aom-toolsRemove aom-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove aom-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aom-toolsDependencies
aom-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aom-tools package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.