How To Install pavucontrol on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pavucontrol
on Kali Linux.
What is pavucontrol
pavucontrol is:
PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is a simple GTK+ based volume control tool (mixer) for the PulseAudio sound server. In contrast to classic mixer tools this one allows you to control both the volume of hardware devices and of each playback stream separately. It also allows you to redirect a playback stream to another output device without interrupting playback.
There are three methods to install pavucontrol
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 pavucontrol Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install pavucontrol
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install pavucontrol Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install pavucontrol
using apt
by running the following command:
Install pavucontrol 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.
After updating apt database, We can install pavucontrol
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall pavucontrol on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the pavucontrol
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall pavucontrol And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pavucontrol
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove pavucontrol Configurations and Data
To remove pavucontrol
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove pavucontrol configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pavucontrol
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
pavucontrol have the following dependencies:
- libatkmm-1.6-1v5
- libc6
- libcanberra-gtk3-0
- libcanberra0
- libgcc-s1
- libglib2.0-0
- libglibmm-2.4-1v5
- libgtk-3-0
- libgtkmm-3.0-1v5
- libpulse-mainloop-glib0
- libpulse0
- libsigc++-2.0-0v5
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pavucontrol
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.