How To Install squishyball on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install squishyball on Ubuntu.
What is squishyball
squishyball is:
squishyball is a simple command-line utility for performing double-blind A/B, A/B/X or X/X/Y (A/B/X with additional sample order randomisation) testing of audio samples on the command line.
The user specifies two input files to be compared and uses the keyboard during playback to flip between the randomized samples to perform on-the-fly comparisons. After a predetermined number of trials, squishyball prints the trial results to stdout and exits.
squishyball can be used to help establish what lossy audio codec settings are optimal for a particular combination of user and audio equipment.
There are three methods to install squishyball on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install squishyball Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install squishyball using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install squishyball
Install squishyball Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install squishyball using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install squishyball
Install squishyball 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install squishyball using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install squishyball
How To Uninstall squishyball on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the squishyball package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove squishyball
Uninstall squishyball And Its Dependencies
To uninstall squishyball and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove squishyball
Remove squishyball Configurations and Data
To remove squishyball configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge squishyball
Remove squishyball configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove squishyball configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge squishyball
Dependencies
squishyball have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install squishyball package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.