How To Install biosig-tools on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install biosig-tools on Kali Linux. biosig-tools is format conversion tools for biomedical data formats

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install biosig-tools on Kali Linux.

What is biosig-tools

biosig-tools is:

Based on BioSig library, this package provides command line tools, such as

  • save2gdf: converter between different file formats, including but not limited to SCP-ECG(EN1064), HL7aECG (FDA-XML), GDF, EDF, BDF, CWFB.
  • biosig2gdf: converts biosig data files into GDF, to simplify parsing and loading by scripting languages (e.g. loadgdf.{py,r})
  • rec2bin, bin2rec, heka2itx, save2aecg, save2scp: several converter tools based on save2gdf
  • biosig_fhir: packs biosignal data into HL7/FHIR binary template file.
  • physicalunits: converter for encoding and decoding of physical units according to ISO 11073-10101

There are three methods to install biosig-tools 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 biosig-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install biosig-tools

Install biosig-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install biosig-tools

Install biosig-tools 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 biosig-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install biosig-tools

How To Uninstall biosig-tools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the biosig-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove biosig-tools

Uninstall biosig-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove biosig-tools

Remove biosig-tools Configurations and Data

To remove biosig-tools configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge biosig-tools

Remove biosig-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge biosig-tools

Dependencies

biosig-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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