How To Install sreview-detect on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sreview-detect on Kali Linux.

What is sreview-detect

sreview-detect is:

SReview is a video review and transcoding system. It allows users to review videos, and will then (after the review has finished) transcode them into archive-quality video files.

This package contains the sreview-detect script, which probes files in the input directory and either adds them to the database if they’re new, or just updates their length if they’re already known.

There are three methods to install sreview-detect 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 sreview-detect Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install sreview-detect

Install sreview-detect Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install sreview-detect

Install sreview-detect 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 sreview-detect using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sreview-detect

How To Uninstall sreview-detect on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the sreview-detect package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove sreview-detect

Uninstall sreview-detect And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sreview-detect

Remove sreview-detect Configurations and Data

To remove sreview-detect configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sreview-detect

Remove sreview-detect configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sreview-detect

Dependencies

sreview-detect have the following dependencies:

• sreview-common
• libjson-perl
• libxml-simpleobject-perl

References

• sreview-detect website

Summary

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