How To Install glfer on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is glfer

glfer is:

Glfer is composed of two main parts: a spectrogram window, where you can see the spectrum of the received signal vs. time and transmission functions, to emit cw characters at a slow but precisely controlled speed, using the QRSS (slow CW) or DFCW (Dual Frequency CW) modes.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install glfer

Install glfer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install glfer

Install glfer 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 glfer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install glfer

How To Uninstall glfer on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove glfer

Uninstall glfer And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove glfer

Remove glfer Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge glfer

Remove glfer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glfer

Dependencies

glfer have the following dependencies:

• fftw2
• 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

References

• glfer website

Summary

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