How To Install gpsbabel on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpsbabel
on Kali Linux.
What is gpsbabel
gpsbabel is:
GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes from one format to another, whether that format is a common mapping format like Delorme, Streets and Trips, or even a serial upload or download to a GPS unit such as those from Garmin and Magellan.
GPSBabel supports dozens of data formats and will be useful for tasks such as geocaching, mapping, and converting from one GPS unit to another. Among the interesting formats it supports are several GPS devices via a serial link, various PDA-based mapping programs, and various Geocaching data formats.
Among others GPSBabel supports the following formats:
Cetus, CoPilot Flight Planner, CSV, Custom CSV, Delorme Street Atlas, Delorme Street Atlas 2004 Plus, Delorms GPS Log, Delorme routes, DNA, EasyGPS Binary, Fugawi, Garmin serial, Geocaching.com loc, GeocachingDB, Geoniche, GPilotS, GPSDrive, GPSman, GPSPilot, gpsutil, GPX, Holux, IGC, Magellan serial, Magellan SD, Magellan Navigator Companion, Mapopolis.Com Mapconverter, Mapsend, Mapsource, Maptech, Microsoft Streets and Trips, Navicache, Netstumbler, NIMA/GNIS Geographic Names, NMEA sentences, OziExplorer, PalmDoc, PCX5, PocketStreets 2002 Pushpin, PSITrex, Quovadis, Tab-separated data, Tiger, TopoMapPro, Topo by National Geographic, xcsv, xmap, xmapwpt.
There are three methods to install gpsbabel
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 gpsbabel Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gpsbabel
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gpsbabel
Install gpsbabel Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gpsbabel
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gpsbabel
Install gpsbabel 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 gpsbabel
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gpsbabel
How To Uninstall gpsbabel on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the gpsbabel
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gpsbabel
Uninstall gpsbabel And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gpsbabel
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gpsbabel
Remove gpsbabel Configurations and Data
To remove gpsbabel
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gpsbabel
Remove gpsbabel configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gpsbabel
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gpsbabel
Dependencies
gpsbabel have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpsbabel
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.