How To Install media-types on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install media-types
on Kali Linux.
What is media-types
media-types is:
This package installs the configuration file /etc/mime.types, that lists standard media types (originally known as “MIME” types) and their usual file extension. This provides a simple way for programs to have a first guess at a file’s content. On standard Debian desktop systems, one will also find more sophisticated tools, for instance provided by the “file” and “xdg-utils” packages.
The /etc/mime.types file is compiled by hand using mostly information provided by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
There are three methods to install media-types
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-types Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install media-types
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install media-types Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install media-types
using apt
by running the following command:
Install media-types 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.
After updating apt database, We can install media-types
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall media-types on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the media-types
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall media-types And Its Dependencies
To uninstall media-types
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove media-types Configurations and Data
To remove media-types
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove media-types configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove media-types
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
media-types have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install media-types
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.