How To Install circuit-macros on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install circuit-macros on Kali Linux.

What is circuit-macros

circuit-macros is:

Circuit Macros is a set of macros designed by Dwight Aplevich for drawing high quality electric circuits to include in TeX, LaTeX, web or other similar documents.

There are three methods to install circuit-macros 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 circuit-macros Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install circuit-macros

Install circuit-macros Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install circuit-macros

Install circuit-macros 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 circuit-macros using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install circuit-macros

How To Uninstall circuit-macros on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the circuit-macros package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove circuit-macros

Uninstall circuit-macros And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove circuit-macros

Remove circuit-macros Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge circuit-macros

Remove circuit-macros configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge circuit-macros

Dependencies

circuit-macros have the following dependencies:

• m4

References

• circuit-macros website

Summary

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