How To Install mkvtoolnix-gui on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkvtoolnix-gui on Kali Linux.
What is mkvtoolnix-gui
mkvtoolnix-gui is:
Matroska is a new multimedia container format, based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), which is a kind of binary XML.
The mmg tool is a graphical user interface for the mkvmerge program, which allow one to create Matroska files from other formats.
This package also contains a graphical version of the mkvinfo tool, which allow one to get information about a Matroska file.
There are three methods to install mkvtoolnix-gui 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 mkvtoolnix-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mkvtoolnix-gui using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mkvtoolnix-guiInstall mkvtoolnix-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mkvtoolnix-gui using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mkvtoolnix-guiInstall mkvtoolnix-gui 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mkvtoolnix-gui using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mkvtoolnix-guiHow To Uninstall mkvtoolnix-gui on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mkvtoolnix-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mkvtoolnix-guiUninstall mkvtoolnix-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mkvtoolnix-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mkvtoolnix-guiRemove mkvtoolnix-gui Configurations and Data
To remove mkvtoolnix-gui configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mkvtoolnix-guiRemove mkvtoolnix-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mkvtoolnix-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mkvtoolnix-guiDependencies
mkvtoolnix-gui have the following dependencies:
- mkvtoolnix
- libboost-filesystem1.74.0
- libc6
- libcmark0.29.0
- libdvdread8
- libebml5
- libfmt7
- libgcc-s1
- libmagic1
- libmatroska7
- libpcre2-8-0
- libpugixml1v5
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5multimedia5
- libqt5network5
- libqt5widgets5
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkvtoolnix-gui package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.