How To Install easytag on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install easytag
on Kali Linux.
What is easytag
easytag is:
EasyTAG is an utility for viewing, editing and writing the tags of different audio files, using a GTK+ interface.
Currently EasyTAG supports the following:
- View, edit, write tags of MP3, MP2 files (ID3 tag), FLAC files (FLAC Vorbis tag), Ogg Opus, Ogg Speex and Ogg Vorbis files (Ogg Vorbis tag), MP4/M4A/AAC files (MPEG-4 Part 10 tag), and MusePack, Monkey’s Audio files (APE tag);
- Auto tagging: parse file and directory names using masks to automatically fill in tag fields;
- Cover art support for all formats;
- Rename files from the tag fields (using masks) or by loading a text file;
- Process selected files of the selected directory;
- Ability to browse subdirectories;
- Recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving, etc;
- Can set a field (artist, title, …) on all other selected files;
- Read file header information (bitrate, time, …) and display it;
- Undo and redo last changes;
- Ability to process tag fields and file names (convert letters into uppercase, lowercase, etc);
- Ability to open a directory or a file with an external program;
- CDDB support (from http protocol);
- A tree based browser;
- A list to select files;
- A playlist generator window;
- A file searching window;
- Simple and explicit interface.
There are three methods to install easytag
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 easytag Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install easytag
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install easytag Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install easytag
using apt
by running the following command:
Install easytag 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.
After updating apt database, We can install easytag
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall easytag on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the easytag
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall easytag And Its Dependencies
To uninstall easytag
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove easytag Configurations and Data
To remove easytag
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove easytag configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove easytag
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
easytag have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install easytag
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.