How To Install alsaplayer-text on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsaplayer-text on Kali Linux.

What is alsaplayer-text

alsaplayer-text is:

This package provides a text interface to alsaplayer, an audio player, and
does not require X or GTK+ to run.

There are three methods to install alsaplayer-text 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 alsaplayer-text Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install alsaplayer-text

Install alsaplayer-text Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install alsaplayer-text

Install alsaplayer-text 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 alsaplayer-text using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install alsaplayer-text

How To Uninstall alsaplayer-text on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the alsaplayer-text package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove alsaplayer-text

Uninstall alsaplayer-text And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove alsaplayer-text

Remove alsaplayer-text Configurations and Data

To remove alsaplayer-text configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge alsaplayer-text

Remove alsaplayer-text configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alsaplayer-text

Dependencies

alsaplayer-text have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• alsaplayer-text website

Summary

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