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.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install media-types

Install media-types Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install media-types

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.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install media-types

How To Uninstall media-types on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove media-types

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:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove media-types

Remove media-types Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge media-types

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:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge media-types

Dependencies

media-types have the following dependencies:

References

• media-types website

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.