How To Install vdr-plugin-examples on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdr-plugin-examples on Kali Linux.
What is vdr-plugin-examples
vdr-plugin-examples is:
Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-receiver program using Linux and DVB technologies. It allows one to record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV.
This package contains the example-plugins hello, osddemo, svccli, svcsvr, skincurses, status and svdrpdemo from the vdr-source. These plugins do not have useful features, they only demonstrate how vdr-plugins work and what is possible to do with them.
There are three methods to install vdr-plugin-examples 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 vdr-plugin-examples Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install vdr-plugin-examples using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vdr-plugin-examplesInstall vdr-plugin-examples Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install vdr-plugin-examples using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vdr-plugin-examplesInstall vdr-plugin-examples 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 vdr-plugin-examples using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vdr-plugin-examplesHow To Uninstall vdr-plugin-examples on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the vdr-plugin-examples package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vdr-plugin-examplesUninstall vdr-plugin-examples And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vdr-plugin-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vdr-plugin-examplesRemove vdr-plugin-examples Configurations and Data
To remove vdr-plugin-examples configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vdr-plugin-examplesRemove vdr-plugin-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vdr-plugin-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vdr-plugin-examplesDependencies
vdr-plugin-examples have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdr-plugin-examples package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.