How To Install musepack-tools on Kali Linux
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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install musepack-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install musepack-toolsInstall musepack-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install musepack-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install musepack-toolsInstall 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install musepack-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install musepack-toolsHow 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-toolsUninstall 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-toolsRemove 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-toolsRemove 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-toolsDependencies
musepack-tools have the following dependencies:
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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.
