How To Install cimg-examples on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cimg-examples on Kali Linux.

What is cimg-examples

cimg-examples 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.

This package contains examples for the usage of the library.

There are three methods to install cimg-examples 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-examples Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cimg-examples

Install cimg-examples Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cimg-examples

Install cimg-examples 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 cimg-examples using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cimg-examples

How To Uninstall cimg-examples on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the cimg-examples package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cimg-examples

Uninstall cimg-examples And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cimg-examples

Remove cimg-examples Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cimg-examples

Remove cimg-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cimg-examples

Dependencies

cimg-examples have the following dependencies:

References

• cimg-examples website

Summary

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