How To Install elki on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elki on Kali Linux.

What is elki

elki is:

ELKI: “Environment for Developing KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures” is a development framework for data mining algorithms written in Java. It includes a large variety of popular data mining algorithms, distance functions and index structures.

Its focus is particularly on clustering and outlier detection methods, in contrast to many other data mining toolkits that focus on classification. Additionally, it includes support for index structures to improve algorithm performance such as R*-Tree and M-Tree.

The modular architecture is meant to allow adding custom components such as distance functions or algorithms, while being able to reuse the other parts for evaluation.

This package contains the compiled ELKI version, and launcher scripts.

There are three methods to install elki 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 elki Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install elki

Install elki Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install elki using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install elki

Install elki 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 elki using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install elki

How To Uninstall elki on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the elki package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove elki

Uninstall elki And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elki

Remove elki Configurations and Data

To remove elki configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge elki

Remove elki configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elki

Dependencies

elki have the following dependencies:

• default-jre

References

• elki website

Summary

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