How To Install mencoder on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install mencoder on Kali Linux. mencoder is MPlayers Movie Encoder

Introduction

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

What is mencoder

mencoder is:

MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. It can also play VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies.

This package contains mencoder, a simple movie encoder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies (AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET) to other MPlayer-playable formats. It can encode with various codecs, like DivX4 (1 or 2 passes), libavcodec, PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio. Also has stream copying and video resizing capabilities.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mencoder

Install mencoder Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mencoder

Install mencoder 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 mencoder using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mencoder

How To Uninstall mencoder on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove mencoder

Uninstall mencoder And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mencoder

Remove mencoder Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mencoder

Remove mencoder configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mencoder

Dependencies

mencoder have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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