How To Install multicat on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is multicat

multicat is:

The multicat package contains a set of tools designed to easily and efficiently manipulate multicast streams in general, and MPEG-2 Transport Streams (ISO/IEC 13818-1) in particular.

The multicat suite of applications is very lightweight and designed to operate in tight environments. Memory and CPU usages are kept to a minimum, and they feature only one thread of execution.

The package contain fives programs: multicat, ingests, offsets, aggregartp and desaggregartp.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install multicat

Install multicat Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install multicat

Install multicat 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 multicat using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install multicat

How To Uninstall multicat on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove multicat

Uninstall multicat And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove multicat

Remove multicat Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge multicat

Remove multicat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge multicat

Dependencies

multicat have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• multicat website

Summary

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