How To Install multimedia-audio-utilities on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install multimedia-audio-utilities on Kali Linux. multimedia-audio-utilities is packages for manipulating & cataloging music and audio

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install multimedia-audio-utilities on Kali Linux.

What is multimedia-audio-utilities

multimedia-audio-utilities is:

This metapackage installs programs and plugins for manipulating & cataloging music and audio. This includes stretching audio in time, breaking it into segments, the detection of pitch, beat and silence, and transcoding between file formats. It also includes tools to assist maintaining music collections by detecting duplicates, tagging metadata and dealing with cover art and album information.

There are three methods to install multimedia-audio-utilities 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 multimedia-audio-utilities Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install multimedia-audio-utilities

Install multimedia-audio-utilities Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install multimedia-audio-utilities using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install multimedia-audio-utilities

Install multimedia-audio-utilities 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 multimedia-audio-utilities using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install multimedia-audio-utilities

How To Uninstall multimedia-audio-utilities on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the multimedia-audio-utilities package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove multimedia-audio-utilities

Uninstall multimedia-audio-utilities And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove multimedia-audio-utilities

Remove multimedia-audio-utilities Configurations and Data

To remove multimedia-audio-utilities configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge multimedia-audio-utilities

Remove multimedia-audio-utilities configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove multimedia-audio-utilities configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge multimedia-audio-utilities

Dependencies

multimedia-audio-utilities have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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