How To Install guitarix on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install guitarix on Kali Linux. guitarix is Rock guitar amplifier for JACK

Introduction

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

What is guitarix

guitarix is:

Guitarix is a rock guitar amplifier for the JACK Audio Connection Kit with one input and two outputs. It provides one JACK input port and two JACK output ports. It is designed to produce nice trash/metal/rock/blues guitar sounds. Controls for bass, treble, gain, compressor, tube selector, distortion, flanger, freeverb, crybaby (wah), etc are available.

Guitarix is available as a GTK+ interface and the project provides LV2 and LADSPA plugins (see the guitarix-lv2 and guitarix-ladspa packages).

This package provides the standalone application with a GTK+ interface.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install guitarix

Install guitarix Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install guitarix

Install guitarix 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 guitarix using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install guitarix

How To Uninstall guitarix on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove guitarix

Uninstall guitarix And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove guitarix

Remove guitarix Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge guitarix

Remove guitarix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge guitarix

Dependencies

guitarix have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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