Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install siggen on Kali Linux.
What is siggen
siggen is:
a set of tools for imitating a laboratory Signal Generator,
generating audio signals out of Linux’s /dev/dsp audio device. There
is support for mono and/or stereo and 8 or 16 bit samples. The tools
include:
-
soundinfo: display some of the programming capabilities of the
sound system support for the mixer device /dev/mixer and the DSP
device. Also shows some of the ioctl calls in action. -
signalgen: a command line signal generator where details are specified
from the command line for generating sine, cos, square, triangle,
sawtooth, pulse, noise waves. Frequency, sample rate, relative
amplitude etc. can be specified through command line options. The
signal is played continuously until the program is stopped. There
are options to save the basic raw digital samples raw to file or to a
WAVE format file. -
swgen: a command line sweep generator. Both the sweeping and
swept waveforms can be specified, along with the sweeping frequency
and the swept frequency range. Otherwise similar to sgen above. -
siggen: an Ncurses screen based Signal Generator for two separate
channels. On stereo audio cards the two channels are played on
separate outputs. On mono cards the two channels are digitally mixed
onto the one output. Type of waveform, frequency, amplitude, sample
rate etc are specified/changed via a screen menu. It plays
continuously. Changes to parameters take effect nearly immediately. -
sweepgen: an Ncurses screen based Sweep generator (see swgen and
siggen above). -
tones: a command line program to generate several successive tones
of varying frequency, and optional differing waveforms, durations and
intensities. The sequence of tones can be either played once, or
repetitively or the samples can be written to a file in raw or WAV
format. This could make the basis of an auto-dialer for tone phones. -
smix: a simple command line program for getting and setting the
mixer settings. -
fsynth: an Ncurses based fourier synthesis realtime generator.
There are three methods to install siggen 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 siggen Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install siggen using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install siggenInstall siggen Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install siggen using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install siggenInstall siggen 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 siggen using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install siggen
How To Uninstall siggen on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the siggen package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove siggen
Uninstall siggen And Its Dependencies
To uninstall siggen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove siggen
Remove siggen Configurations and Data
To remove siggen configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge siggen
Remove siggen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove siggen configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge siggen
Dependencies
siggen have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install siggen package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
