How To Install multimedia-csound on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is multimedia-csound

multimedia-csound is:

Metapackage which installs packages, libraries, extensions and plug-ins to work with Csound, the grand old audio programming language.

There are three methods to install multimedia-csound 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-csound 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-csound using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install multimedia-csound

Install multimedia-csound Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install multimedia-csound

Install multimedia-csound 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-csound using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install multimedia-csound

How To Uninstall multimedia-csound on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove multimedia-csound

Uninstall multimedia-csound And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove multimedia-csound

Remove multimedia-csound Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge multimedia-csound

Remove multimedia-csound configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge multimedia-csound

Dependencies

multimedia-csound have the following dependencies:

• multimedia-tasks

References

• multimedia-csound website

Summary

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