How To Install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common on Kali Linux.

What is phonon-backend-gstreamer-common

phonon-backend-gstreamer-common is:

This package contains GStreamer 1.0.x backend for Phonon multimedia framework. It transparently adapts and reroutes all requests from Phonon applications to the GStreamer framework which in turn performs requested audio/video decoding/capture tasks.

You should install gstreamer1.0-plugins-good to get support for playing popular free multimedia formats and gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly to get support for popular MPEG audio formats like MP3.

This package contains icons used by Phonon and Phonon4Qt5 backends.

There are three methods to install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common 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 phonon-backend-gstreamer-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common

Install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common

Install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common 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 phonon-backend-gstreamer-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common

How To Uninstall phonon-backend-gstreamer-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the phonon-backend-gstreamer-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove phonon-backend-gstreamer-common

Uninstall phonon-backend-gstreamer-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall phonon-backend-gstreamer-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phonon-backend-gstreamer-common

Remove phonon-backend-gstreamer-common Configurations and Data

To remove phonon-backend-gstreamer-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge phonon-backend-gstreamer-common

Remove phonon-backend-gstreamer-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove phonon-backend-gstreamer-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phonon-backend-gstreamer-common

Dependencies

phonon-backend-gstreamer-common have the following dependencies:

References

• phonon-backend-gstreamer-common website

Summary

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