How To Install liblo-tools on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblo-tools on Kali Linux. liblo-tools is Lightweight OSC library (command-line tools)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblo-tools on Kali Linux.

What is liblo-tools

liblo-tools is:

LibLO is a lightweight, easy to use implementation of the OSC (Open Sound Control) protocol (see https://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/ for details).

Open Sound Control (OSC) is a protocol for communication among computers, sound synthesizers, and other multimedia devices that is optimized for modern networking technology. OSC features:

  • Open-ended, dynamic, URL-style symbolic naming scheme
  • Symbolic and high-resolution numeric argument data
  • Pattern matching language to specify multiple recipients of a single message
  • High resolution time tags
  • “Bundles” of messages whose effects must occur simultaneously
  • Query system to dynamically find out the capabilities of an OSC server and get documentation

This package contains the tools included with the library.

There are three methods to install liblo-tools 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 liblo-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install liblo-tools

Install liblo-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install liblo-tools

Install liblo-tools 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 liblo-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblo-tools

How To Uninstall liblo-tools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the liblo-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblo-tools

Uninstall liblo-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblo-tools

Remove liblo-tools Configurations and Data

To remove liblo-tools configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblo-tools

Remove liblo-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblo-tools

Dependencies

liblo-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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