How To Install liballegro-audio5.2 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liballegro-audio5.2 on Kali Linux.

What is liballegro-audio5.2

liballegro-audio5.2 is:

This package provides the audio addon for the Allegro 5 library. This addon allows you to play sounds in your Allegro 5 programs.

Allegro is a cross-platform library intended for use in computer games and other types of multimedia programming. Allegro 5 is the latest major revision of the library, designed to take advantage of modern hardware (e.g. hardware acceleration using 3D cards) and operating systems. Although it is not backwards compatible with earlier versions, it still occupies the same niche and retains a familiar style.

There are three methods to install liballegro-audio5.2 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 liballegro-audio5.2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liballegro-audio5.2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liballegro-audio5.2

Install liballegro-audio5.2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liballegro-audio5.2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liballegro-audio5.2

Install liballegro-audio5.2 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 liballegro-audio5.2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liballegro-audio5.2

How To Uninstall liballegro-audio5.2 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the liballegro-audio5.2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liballegro-audio5.2

Uninstall liballegro-audio5.2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liballegro-audio5.2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liballegro-audio5.2

Remove liballegro-audio5.2 Configurations and Data

To remove liballegro-audio5.2 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liballegro-audio5.2

Remove liballegro-audio5.2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liballegro-audio5.2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liballegro-audio5.2

Dependencies

liballegro-audio5.2 have the following dependencies:

• liballegro5.2

References

• liballegro-audio5.2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liballegro-audio5.2 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.