How To Install paulstretch on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install paulstretch on Kali Linux. paulstretch is Extreme sound time-stretch

Introduction

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

What is paulstretch

paulstretch is:

This is a program for stretching the audio. It is suitable only for extreme sound stretching of the audio (like 50x) and for applying special effects by “spectral smoothing” the sounds. It can transform any sound/music to a texture.

It produces high quality extreme sound stretching. While most sound stretching software sounds bad when trying to stretch the sounds a lot, this one is optimized for extreme sound stretching.

The stretch amount is unlimited. You can play the stretched sound in real-time (including the possibility to “freeze” the sound) or you can render the whole sound or a part of it to audio files.

It has many post-processing effects, like: filters, pitch/frequency shifters Support for WAV, OGG VORBIS files and MP3 files.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install paulstretch

Install paulstretch Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install paulstretch

Install paulstretch 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 paulstretch using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install paulstretch

How To Uninstall paulstretch on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove paulstretch

Uninstall paulstretch And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove paulstretch

Remove paulstretch Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge paulstretch

Remove paulstretch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge paulstretch

Dependencies

paulstretch have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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