How To Install spectools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectools on Debian 9.
What is spectools
spectools is:
Spectrum-Tools is a set of utilities for using the Wi-Spy USB spectrum analyzer tools from Metageek LLC. They include userspace drivers for the hardware (implemented via libusb), a graphing UI built on GTK/Cairo, network servers for remote devices, and simple utilities for developing additional tools.
There are three methods to install spectools on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install spectools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spectools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spectools
Install spectools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spectools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spectools
Install spectools Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install spectools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spectools
How To Uninstall spectools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the spectools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spectools
Uninstall spectools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spectools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spectools
Remove spectools Configurations and Data
To remove spectools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spectools
Remove spectools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spectools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spectools
Dependencies
spectools have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libncurses5
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libtinfo5
- libusb-0.1-4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.