How To Install megapixels on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is megapixels

megapixels is:

Megapixels is a GTK3 camera application that knows how to deal with the V4L2 media request API.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install megapixels

Install megapixels Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install megapixels

Install megapixels 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 megapixels using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install megapixels

How To Uninstall megapixels on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove megapixels

Uninstall megapixels And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove megapixels

Remove megapixels Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge megapixels

Remove megapixels configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge megapixels

Dependencies

megapixels have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libcairo2
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk-3-0
• libtiff5
• libraw-bin

References

• megapixels website

Summary

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