How To Install ayatana-indicator-sound on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install ayatana-indicator-sound on Kali Linux. ayatana-indicator-sound is Ayatana Indicator for managing system sound

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ayatana-indicator-sound on Kali Linux.

What is ayatana-indicator-sound

ayatana-indicator-sound is:

This Ayatana Indicator is designed to be placed on the right side of a panel and give the user easy control over the system’s sound settings.

Ayatana Indicator Sound provides easy control of the PulseAudio sound daemon, and integrates well with media players that support the Mpris protocol.

Ayatana Indicators are only available on desktop environments that provide a renderer for system indicators (such as MATE, Xfce, Lomiri, etc.).

There are three methods to install ayatana-indicator-sound 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 ayatana-indicator-sound Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ayatana-indicator-sound

Install ayatana-indicator-sound Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ayatana-indicator-sound using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ayatana-indicator-sound

Install ayatana-indicator-sound 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 ayatana-indicator-sound using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ayatana-indicator-sound

How To Uninstall ayatana-indicator-sound on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ayatana-indicator-sound package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ayatana-indicator-sound

Uninstall ayatana-indicator-sound And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ayatana-indicator-sound

Remove ayatana-indicator-sound Configurations and Data

To remove ayatana-indicator-sound configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ayatana-indicator-sound

Remove ayatana-indicator-sound configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ayatana-indicator-sound configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ayatana-indicator-sound

Dependencies

ayatana-indicator-sound have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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