How To Install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer on Kali Linux.

What is phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer

phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer is:

This package contains Qt5 GStreamer 1.0 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.

There are three methods to install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer 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 phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer

Install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer

Install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer 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 phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer

How To Uninstall phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer

Uninstall phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer

Remove phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer Configurations and Data

To remove phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer

Remove phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer

Dependencies

phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer have the following dependencies:

• gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
• gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio
• phonon-backend-gstreamer-common

References

• phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.