How To Install libpurify-dev on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpurify-dev on Kali Linux. libpurify-dev is Routines for radio interferometric imaging (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpurify-dev on Kali Linux.

What is libpurify-dev

libpurify-dev is:

PURIFY is a collection of routines written in C that implements different tools for radio interferometric imaging including file handling (for both visibilities and fits files), implementation of the measurement operator and set-up of the different optimization problems used for image deconvolution. The code calls the generic Sparse OPTimization (SOPT) package to solve the imaging optimization problems.

This package contains the development files.

There are three methods to install libpurify-dev 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 libpurify-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libpurify-dev

Install libpurify-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libpurify-dev

Install libpurify-dev 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 libpurify-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libpurify-dev

How To Uninstall libpurify-dev on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libpurify-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libpurify-dev

Uninstall libpurify-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpurify-dev

Remove libpurify-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libpurify-dev

Remove libpurify-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpurify-dev

Dependencies

libpurify-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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