How To Install icecream on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icecream
on Kali Linux.
What is icecream
icecream is:
icecream is a non-interactive stream download utility written in Perl. It connects to icecast and shoutcast servers or direct stream URLs, and redirects all fetched content to stdout and/or to media files on your disk.
Listen to the stream piping the output to a stdin-capable media player. Save the stream to a named file or split it into different tracks. It is possible to redirect the stream and save it to disk at the same time.
There are three methods to install icecream
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 icecream Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install icecream
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install icecream
Install icecream Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install icecream
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install icecream
Install icecream 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 icecream
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install icecream
How To Uninstall icecream on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the icecream
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove icecream
Uninstall icecream And Its Dependencies
To uninstall icecream
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove icecream
Remove icecream Configurations and Data
To remove icecream
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge icecream
Remove icecream configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove icecream
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icecream
Dependencies
icecream have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icecream
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.