How To Install libmpdclient2 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpdclient2 on Kali Linux.

What is libmpdclient2

libmpdclient2 is:

libmpdclient provides an API for interfacing the Music Player Daemon (MPD). It offers a low-level asynchronous API which knowns the MPD protocol syntax as well as a higher level synchronous API implementing the MPD commands and parsing all responses.

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install libmpdclient2 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 libmpdclient2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libmpdclient2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmpdclient2

Install libmpdclient2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libmpdclient2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libmpdclient2

Install libmpdclient2 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 libmpdclient2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmpdclient2

How To Uninstall libmpdclient2 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libmpdclient2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmpdclient2

Uninstall libmpdclient2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmpdclient2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmpdclient2

Remove libmpdclient2 Configurations and Data

To remove libmpdclient2 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmpdclient2

Remove libmpdclient2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libmpdclient2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmpdclient2

Dependencies

libmpdclient2 have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• libmpdclient2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpdclient2 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.