How To Install quodlibet on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install quodlibet on Kali Linux. quodlibet is audio library manager and player for GTK3

Introduction

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

What is quodlibet

quodlibet is:

Quod Libet is a music management program. It provides several different ways to view your audio library, as well as support for Internet radio and audio feeds. It has extremely flexible metadata tag editing and searching capabilities, using the same interface as Ex Falso.

Supported formats include MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, and MOD/XM/IT.

There are three methods to install quodlibet 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 quodlibet Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install quodlibet

Install quodlibet Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install quodlibet

Install quodlibet 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 quodlibet using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install quodlibet

How To Uninstall quodlibet on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove quodlibet

Uninstall quodlibet And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove quodlibet

Remove quodlibet Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge quodlibet

Remove quodlibet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge quodlibet

Dependencies

quodlibet have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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