How To Install icedax on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is icedax

icedax is:

icedax lets you digitally copy (“rip”) audio tracks from a CD, avoiding the distortion that is introduced when recording via a sound card. Data can be dumped into raw (cdr), wav or sun format sound files. Options control the recording format (stereo/mono; 8/16 bits; sampling rate, etc).

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install icedax

Install icedax Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install icedax

Install icedax 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 icedax using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install icedax

How To Uninstall icedax on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove icedax

Uninstall icedax And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove icedax

Remove icedax Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge icedax

Remove icedax configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icedax

Dependencies

icedax have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• icedax website

Summary

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