How To Install voctomix on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install voctomix on Kali Linux. voctomix is Full-HD Software Live-Video-Mixer

Introduction

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

What is voctomix

voctomix is:

The Voctomix Project by the C3Voc (the Chaos Communication Congress’ Video Operation Crew) is their software implementation of a Live-Video-Mixer.

It is written in Python using GStreamer and consists of three parts:

  • Voctocore, the videomixer core-process that does the actual video- and audio crunching.
  • Voctogui, a GUI implementation in GTK+ controlling the core’s functionality and giving visual feedback of the mixed video.
  • Voctomix Example Scripts, a collection of tools and examples for talking to the core-process, feeding and receiving video-streams and controlling operations from scripts or command-line.

This package depends on all the components and also contains the documentation and example scripts.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install voctomix

Install voctomix Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install voctomix

Install voctomix 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 voctomix using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install voctomix

How To Uninstall voctomix on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove voctomix

Uninstall voctomix And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove voctomix

Remove voctomix Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge voctomix

Remove voctomix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge voctomix

Dependencies

voctomix have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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