How To Install ffmsindex on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ffmsindex on Kali Linux.

What is ffmsindex

ffmsindex is:

A cross platform ffmpeg wrapper library, and some additional content for things ffmpeg doesn’t handle well. A more friendly API and an easy way to say “open and decompress this, I don’t care how”.

This package contain a command line indexer tool. Used to create index files which can later be used by applications which are useing ffms2 to speed up loading of multimedia files.

There are three methods to install ffmsindex 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 ffmsindex Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ffmsindex

Install ffmsindex Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ffmsindex using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ffmsindex

Install ffmsindex 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 ffmsindex using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ffmsindex

How To Uninstall ffmsindex on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ffmsindex package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ffmsindex

Uninstall ffmsindex And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ffmsindex

Remove ffmsindex Configurations and Data

To remove ffmsindex configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ffmsindex

Remove ffmsindex configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ffmsindex

Dependencies

ffmsindex have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libffms2-4
• libgcc1

References

• ffmsindex website

Summary

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