How To Install multimedia-players on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is multimedia-players

multimedia-players is:

This metapackage will install additional ‘consumer’ multimedia software.

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

sudo apt-get -y install multimedia-players

Install multimedia-players Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install multimedia-players

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

sudo aptitude -y install multimedia-players

How To Uninstall multimedia-players on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove multimedia-players

Uninstall multimedia-players And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove multimedia-players

Remove multimedia-players Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge multimedia-players

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

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

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

Dependencies

multimedia-players have the following dependencies:

• multimedia-tasks

References

• multimedia-players website

Summary

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