How To Install psychtoolbox-3-dbg on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install psychtoolbox-3-dbg on Kali Linux. psychtoolbox-3-dbg is toolbox for vision research – debug symbols for binaries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install psychtoolbox-3-dbg on Kali Linux.

What is psychtoolbox-3-dbg

psychtoolbox-3-dbg is:

Psychophysics Toolbox Version 3 (PTB-3) is a free set of Matlab and GNU/Octave functions for vision research. It makes it easy to synthesize and show accurately controlled visual and auditory stimuli and interact with the observer.

The Psychophysics Toolbox interfaces between Matlab or Octave and the computer hardware. The Psychtoolbox’s core routines provide access to the display frame buffer and color lookup table, allow synchronization with the vertical retrace, support millisecond timing, allow access to OpenGL commands, and facilitate the collection of observer responses. Ancillary routines support common needs like color space transformations and the QUEST threshold seeking algorithm.

To ease debugging and troubleshooting this package contains debug symbols for Octave bindings and other binaries.

There are three methods to install psychtoolbox-3-dbg 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 psychtoolbox-3-dbg Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install psychtoolbox-3-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install psychtoolbox-3-dbg

Install psychtoolbox-3-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install psychtoolbox-3-dbg using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install psychtoolbox-3-dbg

Install psychtoolbox-3-dbg 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 psychtoolbox-3-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install psychtoolbox-3-dbg

How To Uninstall psychtoolbox-3-dbg on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the psychtoolbox-3-dbg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove psychtoolbox-3-dbg

Uninstall psychtoolbox-3-dbg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall psychtoolbox-3-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove psychtoolbox-3-dbg

Remove psychtoolbox-3-dbg Configurations and Data

To remove psychtoolbox-3-dbg configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge psychtoolbox-3-dbg

Remove psychtoolbox-3-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove psychtoolbox-3-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge psychtoolbox-3-dbg

Dependencies

psychtoolbox-3-dbg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install psychtoolbox-3-dbg package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.