How To Install cuneiform on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cuneiform on Kali Linux.
What is cuneiform
cuneiform is:
Cuneiform is an OCR system. In addition to text recognition it also does layout analysis and text format recognition.
The following languages are supported: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
There are three methods to install cuneiform 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 cuneiform Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cuneiform using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cuneiformInstall cuneiform Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cuneiform using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cuneiformInstall cuneiform 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 cuneiform using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cuneiformHow To Uninstall cuneiform on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cuneiform package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cuneiformUninstall cuneiform And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cuneiform and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cuneiformRemove cuneiform Configurations and Data
To remove cuneiform configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cuneiformRemove cuneiform configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cuneiform configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cuneiformDependencies
cuneiform have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cuneiform package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.