How To Install media-player-info on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install media-player-info on Kali Linux.

What is media-player-info

media-player-info is:

media-player-info is a repository of data files describing media player (mostly USB Mass Storage ones) capabilities. These files contain information about the directory layout to use to add music to these devices, about the supported file formats, and so on.

The music player capabilities are now described in *.mpi files (which are ini-like files), together with udev rules to identify these devices.

There are three methods to install media-player-info 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 media-player-info Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install media-player-info

Install media-player-info Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install media-player-info using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install media-player-info

Install media-player-info 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 media-player-info using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install media-player-info

How To Uninstall media-player-info on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the media-player-info package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove media-player-info

Uninstall media-player-info And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove media-player-info

Remove media-player-info Configurations and Data

To remove media-player-info configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge media-player-info

Remove media-player-info configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove media-player-info configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge media-player-info

Dependencies

media-player-info have the following dependencies:

• udev

References

• media-player-info website

Summary

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