Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install audacious-dev on Kali Linux.
What is audacious-dev
audacious-dev is:
Audacious is a fork of beep-media-player which supports Winamp skins
and many codecs.
In the default install, the following codecs are supported:
- MP3
- Ogg Vorbis / Theora
- AAC and AAC+
- FLAC
- ALAC
- Windows Media (WMA)
- WAVE
Additionally, Audacious is extendable through plugins, and contains
other useful features like LIRC support. Support for many more codecs
can also be added through plugins.
This package contains the development libraries and header files
required for developing components for audacious.
Please note that this package no longer contains libaudacious, as
libaudacious was dropped in Audacious 1.4.
There are three methods to install audacious-dev 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 audacious-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install audacious-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install audacious-dev
Install audacious-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install audacious-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install audacious-devInstall audacious-dev 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install audacious-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install audacious-dev
How To Uninstall audacious-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the audacious-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove audacious-dev
Uninstall audacious-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall audacious-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove audacious-dev
Remove audacious-dev Configurations and Data
To remove audacious-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge audacious-dev
Remove audacious-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove audacious-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge audacious-dev
Dependencies
audacious-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install audacious-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
