How To Install pavucontrol-qt on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pavucontrol-qt on Kali Linux.
What is pavucontrol-qt
pavucontrol-qt is:
Qt port of volume control pavucontrol of sound server PulseAudio. As such it can be used to adjust all controls provided by PulseAudio as well as some additional settings.
The software belongs to the LXQt project but its usage isn’t limited to this desktop environment.
This package contain the application files.
There are three methods to install pavucontrol-qt 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-qt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install pavucontrol-qt using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pavucontrol-qtInstall pavucontrol-qt Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install pavucontrol-qt using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pavucontrol-qtInstall pavucontrol-qt 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 pavucontrol-qt using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pavucontrol-qtHow To Uninstall pavucontrol-qt on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the pavucontrol-qt package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pavucontrol-qtUninstall pavucontrol-qt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pavucontrol-qt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pavucontrol-qtRemove pavucontrol-qt Configurations and Data
To remove pavucontrol-qt configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pavucontrol-qtRemove pavucontrol-qt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pavucontrol-qt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pavucontrol-qtDependencies
pavucontrol-qt have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libglib2.0-0
- libpulse-mainloop-glib0
- libpulse0
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5widgets5
- libstdc++6
- pulseaudio
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pavucontrol-qt package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.