How To Install gkrellxmms2 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gkrellxmms2 on Kali Linux.
What is gkrellxmms2
gkrellxmms2 is:
gkrellxmms2 is a plugin for GKrellM2, written in C, to control the XMMS2 audio player. It supports basic controls such as play, pause, skip etc. and it has an integrated playlist editor with a media library search and browser.
There are three methods to install gkrellxmms2 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 gkrellxmms2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gkrellxmms2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gkrellxmms2Install gkrellxmms2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gkrellxmms2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gkrellxmms2Install gkrellxmms2 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 gkrellxmms2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gkrellxmms2How To Uninstall gkrellxmms2 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the gkrellxmms2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gkrellxmms2Uninstall gkrellxmms2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gkrellxmms2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gkrellxmms2Remove gkrellxmms2 Configurations and Data
To remove gkrellxmms2 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gkrellxmms2Remove gkrellxmms2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gkrellxmms2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gkrellxmms2Dependencies
gkrellxmms2 have the following dependencies:
- gkrellm
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libx11-6
- libxmmsclient-glib1
- libxmmsclient6
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gkrellxmms2 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.