How To Install cimg-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cimg-dev on Kali Linux.
What is cimg-dev
cimg-dev is:
The CImg Library is a C++ toolkit providing simple classes and functions to load, save, process and display images in your own C++ code. It consists only of a single header file CImg.h that must be included in your program source. It contains useful image processing algorithms for loading/saving, resizing/rotating, filtering, object drawing (text, lines, faces, ellipses, …), etc.
Images are instantiated by a class able to represent images up to 4-dimension wide (from 1-D scalar signals to 3-D volumes of vector-valued pixels), with template pixel types. It depends on a minimal number of libraries : you can compile it with only standard C libraries. No need for exotic libraries and complex dependencies.
There are three methods to install cimg-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 cimg-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cimg-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cimg-devInstall cimg-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cimg-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cimg-devInstall cimg-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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cimg-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cimg-devHow To Uninstall cimg-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cimg-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cimg-devUninstall cimg-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cimg-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cimg-devRemove cimg-dev Configurations and Data
To remove cimg-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cimg-devRemove cimg-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cimg-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cimg-devDependencies
cimg-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cimg-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
