How To Install freebirth on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is freebirth

freebirth is:

Freebirth is a free software bass synthesizer / step sequencer / sample player similar to Rebirth. The bass synthesizer resembles a 303 but also has other capabilities such as

• Three oscillators (saw, sin, sqr)
• Phase offsets for each oscillator
• Separate filter and amplitude envelopes
• Separate tuning for each oscillator
• Two effects busses (reverb and delay).

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install freebirth

Install freebirth Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install freebirth

Install freebirth 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 freebirth using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install freebirth

How To Uninstall freebirth on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove freebirth

Uninstall freebirth And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove freebirth

Remove freebirth Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge freebirth

Remove freebirth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freebirth

Dependencies

freebirth have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-0
• alsa-oss
• freebirth-data

References

• freebirth website

Summary

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