How to Install and Uninstall mat2 Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 10,2024

1. Install "mat2" package

Please follow the instructions below to install mat2 on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "mat2" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall mat2 on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mat2 package on Kali Linux

Package: mat2
Version: 0.13.4-2.1
Installed-Size: 232
Maintainer: Debian Privacy Tools Maintainers
Architecture: all
Replaces: mat (<< 0.8.0-2~)
Depends: gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0, gir1.2-poppler-0.18, gir1.2-rsvg-2.0, libimage-exiftool-perl, python3-gi-cairo, python3-mutagen, python3-cairo, python3-gi, python3:any
Recommends: bubblewrap, metadata-cleaner
Suggests: ffmpeg
Breaks: mat (<< 0.8.0-2~)
Size: 74632
SHA256: 55b15e698bbf9873994d7ec9eec4fbc10b1c934cf53af843ba44ad9a274c0bb5
SHA1: 508a80e65244e50d79b86f847b3fdaa38dbab25d
MD5sum: 86d6fc59b3f63e2f2c4f69786b24e749
Description: Metadata anonymisation toolkit v2
Metadata consist of information that characterizes data. Metadata are
used to provide documentation for data products. In essence, metadata
answer who, what, when, where, why, and how about every facet of the
data that are being documented.
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Metadata within a file can tell a lot about you. Cameras record data
about when a picture was taken and what camera was used. Office
documents like PDF or Office automatically adds author and company
information to documents and spreadsheets.
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Maybe you don't want to disclose those information.
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mat2 only removes metadata from your files, it does not anonymise their
content, nor can it handle watermarking, steganography, or any too
custom metadata field/system.
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If you really want to be anonymous, use file formats that do not contain
any metadata, or better: use plain-text.
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Formats supported to some extent are:
- Audio Interchange File Format (.aiff)
- Audio Video Interleave (.avi)
- Electronic Publication (.epub)
- Free Lossless Audio Codec (.flac)
- Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)
- High Efficiency Image Format (.heic, .heif)
- Hypertext Markup Language (.html, .xhtml)
- Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
- JPEG (.jpeg, .jpg, ...)
- MPEG Audio (.mp3, .mp2, .mp1, .mpa)
- MPEG-4 (.mp4)
- Office Openxml (.docx, .pptx, .xlsx, ...)
- Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)
- Open Document (.odt, .odx, .ods, ...)
- Portable Document Fileformat (.pdf)
- Portable Pixmap Format (.ppm)
- Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg)
- Tape ARchive (.tar, .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, .tar.zx)
- Torrent (.torrent)
- Waveform Audio (.wav)
- Windows Media Video (.wmv)
- ZIP (.zip)
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mat2 provides a command line tool and a graphical user interfaces via a
service menu for Dolphin, the default file manager of KDE. Besides, it
recommends metadata-cleaner, a GTK app for viewing and cleaning metadata of
files.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2
Tag: implemented-in::python, interface::commandline,
privacy::no-known-issues, role::plugin, role::program, scope::utility,
works-with-format::jpg, works-with-format::png, works-with::file,
works-with::image
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mat2/mat2_0.13.4-2.1_all.deb