How To Install abx on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install abx on Kali Linux.

What is abx

abx is:

abx is a program for performing software-based audio ABX testing on GNU/Linux
systems. ABX test (Wikipedia, Hydrogenaudio) is a statistical test for
assessing whether you are able to tell for audible differences between two
samples. For example, one sample can be a compressed audio file such as OGG
Vorbis file and another one its uncompressed variant (WAV, AU, ??). You can then
use abx to infer whether you are able to separate the two samples due to
compression artifacts.

There are three methods to install abx 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 abx Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install abx

Install abx Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install abx using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install abx

Install abx 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 abx using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install abx

How To Uninstall abx on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the abx package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove abx

Uninstall abx And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove abx

Remove abx Configurations and Data

To remove abx configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge abx

Remove abx configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge abx

Dependencies

abx have the following dependencies:

• libasound2
• libatk1.0-0
• libc6
• libcairo2
• libfontconfig1
• libfreetype6
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-0
• libpango-1.0-0
• libpangocairo-1.0-0
• libpangoft2-1.0-0
• libportaudio2
• libsndfile1

References

• abx website

Summary

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