How To Install kaffeine on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kaffeine on Kali Linux.
What is kaffeine
kaffeine is:
Kaffeine is a media player for KDE based on VLC, which gives it a wide variety of supported media types and lets Kaffeine access CDs, DVDs, and network streams easily. Kaffeine also has an excellent support of digital TV (DVB).
Kaffeine can keep track of multiple playlists simultaneously, and supports autoloading of subtitle files for use while playing video.
There are three methods to install kaffeine 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 kaffeine Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install kaffeine using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kaffeineInstall kaffeine Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install kaffeine using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kaffeineInstall kaffeine 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 kaffeine using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kaffeineHow To Uninstall kaffeine on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the kaffeine package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kaffeineUninstall kaffeine And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kaffeine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kaffeineRemove kaffeine Configurations and Data
To remove kaffeine configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kaffeineRemove kaffeine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kaffeine configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kaffeineDependencies
kaffeine have the following dependencies:
- kio
- libc6
- libdvbv5-0
- libkf5configcore5
- libkf5configwidgets5
- libkf5coreaddons5
- libkf5dbusaddons5
- libkf5i18n5
- libkf5kiocore5
- libkf5kiofilewidgets5
- libkf5solid5
- libkf5widgetsaddons5
- libkf5windowsystem5
- libkf5xmlgui5
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5sql5
- libqt5widgets5
- libqt5x11extras5
- libqt5xml5
- libstdc++6
- libvlc5
- libxss1
- kinit
- iso-codes
- libqt5sql5-sqlite
- vlc-plugin-base
- vlc-plugin-video-output
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kaffeine package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.