How To Install vlevel on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vlevel on Kali Linux.

What is vlevel

vlevel is:

VLevel keeps your music from making you jump out of your seat, and it keeps you from having to fiddle with the volume constantly. It’s different from other dynamic compressors because it looks ahead. You can think of VLevel as someone who knows your music by heart, and turns the volume up during quiet passages, but smoothly turns it back down when he knows a loud part is coming. It’s great for making CDs to listen to in your car, or to play background music on your computer.

VLevel is currently a LADSPA plugin, a JACK plugin and a command-line filter. You can use it with many Linux audio programs including XMMS, GStreamer, GLAME, GDAM, and others, and you can use it in shell scripts to level your music before burning a CD.

The commandline filter is also useful for levelling podcasts before (encoding and) publishing.

There are three methods to install vlevel 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 vlevel Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install vlevel

Install vlevel Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install vlevel using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install vlevel

Install vlevel 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 vlevel using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vlevel

How To Uninstall vlevel on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the vlevel package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove vlevel

Uninstall vlevel And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vlevel

Remove vlevel Configurations and Data

To remove vlevel configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge vlevel

Remove vlevel configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vlevel

Dependencies

vlevel have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• vlevel website

Summary

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