How To Install squeezelite on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install squeezelite
on Kali Linux.
What is squeezelite
squeezelite is:
Squeezelite is a small headless Squeezebox emulator. It is aimed at supporting high quality audio including USB DAC based output at multiple sample rates.
It supports decoding PCM (WAV/AIFF), FLAC, MP3, Ogg, AAC, WMA and ALAC audio formats. It can also resample audio, which allows squeezelite to upsample the output to the highest sample rate supported by the output device.
This package is built with the resampling, ffmpeg and visualisation export options. It uses ALSA for audio output.
There are three methods to install squeezelite
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 squeezelite Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install squeezelite
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install squeezelite
Install squeezelite Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install squeezelite
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install squeezelite
Install squeezelite 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 squeezelite
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install squeezelite
How To Uninstall squeezelite on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the squeezelite
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove squeezelite
Uninstall squeezelite And Its Dependencies
To uninstall squeezelite
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove squeezelite
Remove squeezelite Configurations and Data
To remove squeezelite
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge squeezelite
Remove squeezelite configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove squeezelite
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge squeezelite
Dependencies
squeezelite have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install squeezelite
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.