How To Install inspectrum on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install inspectrum on Kali Linux. inspectrum is tool for visualising captured radio signals

Introduction

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

What is inspectrum

inspectrum is:

inspectrum is a tool for analysing captured signals, primarily from software-defined radio receivers.

inspectrum supports the following file types: *.cf32, *.cfile - Complex 32-bit floating point (GNURadio, osmocom_fft) *.cs16 - Complex 16-bit signed integer (BladeRF) *.cs8 - Complex 8-bit signed integer (HackRF) *.cu8 - Complex 8-bit unsigned integer (RTL-SDR)

Features:

  • Large (100GB+) file support
  • Spectrogram with zoom/pan
  • Plots of amplitude, frequency, phase and IQ samples
  • Cursors for measuring period, symbol rate and extracting symbols
  • Export of selected time period, filtered samples and demodulated data

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install inspectrum

Install inspectrum Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install inspectrum

Install inspectrum 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 inspectrum using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install inspectrum

How To Uninstall inspectrum on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove inspectrum

Uninstall inspectrum And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove inspectrum

Remove inspectrum Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge inspectrum

Remove inspectrum configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge inspectrum

Dependencies

inspectrum have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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