How To Install musepack-tools on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install musepack-tools on Kali Linux. musepack-tools is MusePack commandline utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install musepack-tools on Kali Linux.

What is musepack-tools

musepack-tools is:

Musepack is an audio compression format with a strong emphasis on high quality. It’s not lossless, but it is designed for transparency, so that you won’t be able to hear differences between the original wave file and the much smaller MPC file.

It is based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, but since 1997 it has rapidly developed and vastly improved and is now at an advanced stage in which it contains heavily optimized and patentless code.

This package contains various commandline utilities for MusePack files:

  • mpcenc (encoder)
  • mpcdec (decoder)
  • mpccut (cut MPC files without reencoding)
  • mpcgain (gain calculation)
  • mpc2sv8 (conversion to MusePack SV8 from older SV)

There are three methods to install musepack-tools 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 musepack-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install musepack-tools

Install musepack-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install musepack-tools

Install musepack-tools 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 musepack-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install musepack-tools

How To Uninstall musepack-tools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the musepack-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove musepack-tools

Uninstall musepack-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove musepack-tools

Remove musepack-tools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge musepack-tools

Remove musepack-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge musepack-tools

Dependencies

musepack-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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