In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install MPD (Music Player Daemon) on Kali Linux. MPD is a lightweight, flexible, and powerful music player that can run in a background daemon mode. The installation process is straightforward and can be completed in a few steps.
Before we start installing MPD, we need to make sure that our system is up-to-date and has all the necessary dependencies installed. To do this, we will run the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential libasound2-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libmpdclient-dev libssl-dev libid3tag0-dev libsqlite3-dev libmad0-dev libfaad-dev
To download MPD, we will need to visit the official website at https://www.musicpd.org/ and download the source code for the latest version. Alternatively, we can use the following command to download the source code directly to our Kali Linux machine:
sudo wget https://www.musicpd.org/download/mpd/0.22/mpd-0.22.10.tar.xz
After the download is complete, we need to extract the source code from the archive we have downloaded. To do this, we can use the following command:
tar -xf mpd-0.*.tar.*
Before we can install MPD, we need to configure and compile it. To configure MPD, we will navigate to the directory where we extracted the source code:
cd mpd-0.*
Next, we will run the configure script:
./configure
This will check our system for any missing dependencies and configure the MPD source code accordingly. If everything is okay, we can proceed to compile MPD:
make
Finally, we can install MPD by using the following command:
sudo make install
After the installation is complete, we need to configure MPD before we can use it. MPD comes with a default configuration file at /usr/local/etc/mpd.conf. We can edit this file using our favorite text editor:
sudo nano /usr/local/etc/mpd.conf
In this file, we can configure the music directory, audio output, and other settings. Once we are done with the configuration, we need to restart the MPD daemon for the changes to take effect:
sudo systemctl restart mpd
At this point, we have successfully installed and configured MPD on Kali Linux. We can now use a variety of clients to connect to the MPD server and start playing music.
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