How To Install libextractor-plugins-all on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libextractor-plugins-all on Kali Linux.

What is libextractor-plugins-all

libextractor-plugins-all is:

GNU libextractor provides developers of file-sharing networks, file managers, and WWW-indexing bots with a universal library to obtain meta-data about files.

Currently, libextractor supports the following formats: HTML, MAN, PS, DVI, OLE2 (DOC, XLS, PPT), OpenOffice (sxw), StarOffice (sdw), FLAC, MP3 (ID3v1 and ID3v2), OGG, WAV, S3M (Scream Tracker 3), XM (eXtended Module), IT (Impulse Tracker), NSF(E) (NES music), SID (C64 music), EXIV2, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, DEB, RPM, TAR(.GZ), LZH, LHA, RAR, ZIP, CAB, 7-ZIP, AR, MTREE, PAX, CPIO, ISO9660, SHAR, RAW, XAR FLV, REAL, RIFF (AVI), MPEG, QT, and ASF.

Also, various additional MIME types are detected. It can also be used to compute hash functions (SHA-1, MD5, ripemd160).

This metapackage depends on all the plugins.

There are three methods to install libextractor-plugins-all 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 libextractor-plugins-all Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libextractor-plugins-all

Install libextractor-plugins-all Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libextractor-plugins-all using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libextractor-plugins-all

Install libextractor-plugins-all 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 libextractor-plugins-all using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libextractor-plugins-all

How To Uninstall libextractor-plugins-all on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libextractor-plugins-all package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libextractor-plugins-all

Uninstall libextractor-plugins-all And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libextractor-plugins-all

Remove libextractor-plugins-all Configurations and Data

To remove libextractor-plugins-all configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libextractor-plugins-all

Remove libextractor-plugins-all configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libextractor-plugins-all

Dependencies

libextractor-plugins-all have the following dependencies:

• libextractor3
• libextractor-plugin-archive
• libextractor-plugin-av
• libextractor-plugin-exiv2
• libextractor-plugin-flac
• libextractor-plugin-gif
• libextractor-plugin-gstreamer
• libextractor-plugin-html
• libextractor-plugin-jpeg
• libextractor-plugin-midi
• libextractor-plugin-mpeg
• libextractor-plugin-ogg
• libextractor-plugin-ole2
• libextractor-plugin-pdf
• libextractor-plugin-rpm
• libextractor-plugin-thumbnailgtk
• libextractor-plugin-tiff
• libextractor-plugins-misc

References

• libextractor-plugins-all website

Summary

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