How To Install vlc-plugin-svg on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlc-plugin-svg on Kali Linux.
What is vlc-plugin-svg
vlc-plugin-svg is:
VLC is the VideoLAN project’s media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.
This plugin allows you to render SVG graphics on top of the video. It is a text renderer, and must be activated through the ‘–text-renderer svg’ option. When sent non-SVG data, it will convert it to SVG using a template that can be specified by the svg-template-file option.
There are three methods to install vlc-plugin-svg 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 vlc-plugin-svg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install vlc-plugin-svg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vlc-plugin-svgInstall vlc-plugin-svg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install vlc-plugin-svg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vlc-plugin-svgInstall vlc-plugin-svg 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 vlc-plugin-svg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vlc-plugin-svgHow To Uninstall vlc-plugin-svg on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the vlc-plugin-svg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vlc-plugin-svgUninstall vlc-plugin-svg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vlc-plugin-svg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vlc-plugin-svgRemove vlc-plugin-svg Configurations and Data
To remove vlc-plugin-svg configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vlc-plugin-svgRemove vlc-plugin-svg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vlc-plugin-svg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vlc-plugin-svgDependencies
vlc-plugin-svg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlc-plugin-svg package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.