How To Install libgavl1 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgavl1 on Kali Linux.

What is libgavl1

libgavl1 is:

Gavl handles all the details of audio and video formats like colorspaces, samplerates, multichannel configurations etc. It provides standardized definitions for those formats as well as container structures for carrying audio samples or video images inside an application.

In addition, it handles the sometimes ugly task to convert between all these formats and provides some elementary operations (copying, scaling, alpha blending etc).

This package contains the files needed to run a program compiled using Gavl.

There are three methods to install libgavl1 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 libgavl1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libgavl1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libgavl1

Install libgavl1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libgavl1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libgavl1

Install libgavl1 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 libgavl1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgavl1

How To Uninstall libgavl1 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libgavl1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgavl1

Uninstall libgavl1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libgavl1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgavl1

Remove libgavl1 Configurations and Data

To remove libgavl1 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libgavl1

Remove libgavl1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libgavl1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgavl1

Dependencies

libgavl1 have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• libgavl1 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgavl1 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.