How To Install audiofile-tools on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install audiofile-tools on Kali Linux.
What is audiofile-tools
audiofile-tools is:
The audiofile library allows the processing of audio data to and from audio files of many common formats (currently AIFF, AIFF-C, WAVE, NeXT/Sun, BICS, and raw data).
This package contains the sfinfo and sfconvert tools.
There are three methods to install audiofile-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 audiofile-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install audiofile-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install audiofile-toolsInstall audiofile-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install audiofile-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install audiofile-toolsInstall audiofile-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 audiofile-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install audiofile-toolsHow To Uninstall audiofile-tools on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the audiofile-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove audiofile-toolsUninstall audiofile-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall audiofile-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove audiofile-toolsRemove audiofile-tools Configurations and Data
To remove audiofile-tools configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge audiofile-toolsRemove audiofile-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove audiofile-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge audiofile-toolsDependencies
audiofile-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install audiofile-tools package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
