How To Enable The Sound On Kali Linux - Our Code World
How To Enable The Sound On Kali Linux - Our Code World
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Although the best-known phrase of Kali Linux is "the quiet you are the more you are
able to hear", as a citizen of the planet earth, I apologize and allow myself to break this
rule. As a simple developer, i love to listen music while I work and by default in Kali
Linux 2016.2 the sound doesn't work.
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Follow these steps to put the Audio services in order to listen music while you work !
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The killall command is used to kill all processes (running instances of programs)
associated with programs whose names are provided to it as arguments. In this case, Powered By
you need to stop any pulseaudio service (in case that there's running):
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with the uninstallation later.
2. Remove pulseaudio
PulseAudio is a sound system for POSIX OSes, meaning that it is a proxy for your sound
applications. It allows you to do advanced operations on your sound data as it passes
between your application and your hardware. PulseAudio is designed for Linux
systems.
Purge is identical to apt-get remove except that packages are removed and purged.
Purge meaning that any con guration les are deleted too.
3. Install alsa-base
alsa-base is a package that contains various con guration les for the alsa drivers.for
alsa to work on a system with a given sound card, there must be an alsa driver for that
card in the kernel. linux 2.6 as shipped in linux-image packages contains alsa drivers for
all supported sound cards in the form of loadable modules.
With the execution of the command, the download of the package should start. If it
fails, then you need as rst execute sudo apt-get update. Then execute the command
again and it should work properly.
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4. Install kmix
KMix is an application to allow you to change the volume of your sound card. Though
small, it is full-featured, and it supports several platforms and sound drivers.
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At this point you should restart the machine to prevent any error in the next step. Save
this article in the Bookmark bar of your browser and come back once the computer
restarts.
5. Install pulseaudio
Once the computer starts again, open a new terminal and proceed to install pulseaudio
with the following command:
6. Install gnome-core
The Gnome-core packages contains essential components for desktop environments,
install it using the following command:
Restart once again your computer and the sound should now work. If you think that
these steps are unnecessary, remember that Kali is a Linux distribution speci cally
geared towards professional penetration testers and security specialists, therefore are
components that doesn't work because they aren't essential for the distribution.
Have fun !
Carlos Delgado
Interested in programming since he was 14 years old, Carlos is a self-taught programmer and founder
and author of most of the articles at Our Code World.