How To Install phonon4qt5 on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is phonon4qt5

phonon4qt5 is:

Phonon Qt 5 is a multimedia API, which provides a task-oriented abstraction layer for capturing, mixing, processing, and playing audio and video content.

This metapackage ensures that the system has a working Phonon configuration installed (the core library and at least one back-end).

There are three methods to install phonon4qt5 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install phonon4qt5

Install phonon4qt5 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install phonon4qt5

Install phonon4qt5 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phonon4qt5

How To Uninstall phonon4qt5 on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove phonon4qt5

Uninstall phonon4qt5 And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phonon4qt5

Remove phonon4qt5 Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge phonon4qt5

Remove phonon4qt5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phonon4qt5

Dependencies

phonon4qt5 have the following dependencies:

• libphonon4qt5-4

References

• phonon4qt5 website

Summary

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