How To Install squeezelite-pulseaudio on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install squeezelite-pulseaudio on Kali Linux.
What is squeezelite-pulseaudio
squeezelite-pulseaudio 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 PulseAudio for audio output.
There are three methods to install squeezelite-pulseaudio 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-pulseaudio Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install squeezelite-pulseaudio using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install squeezelite-pulseaudioInstall squeezelite-pulseaudio Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install squeezelite-pulseaudio using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install squeezelite-pulseaudioInstall squeezelite-pulseaudio 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install squeezelite-pulseaudio using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install squeezelite-pulseaudioHow To Uninstall squeezelite-pulseaudio on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the squeezelite-pulseaudio package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove squeezelite-pulseaudioUninstall squeezelite-pulseaudio And Its Dependencies
To uninstall squeezelite-pulseaudio and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove squeezelite-pulseaudioRemove squeezelite-pulseaudio Configurations and Data
To remove squeezelite-pulseaudio configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge squeezelite-pulseaudioRemove squeezelite-pulseaudio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove squeezelite-pulseaudio configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge squeezelite-pulseaudioDependencies
squeezelite-pulseaudio have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install squeezelite-pulseaudio package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.