How To Install eso-midas-testdata on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install eso-midas-testdata on Kali Linux.

What is eso-midas-testdata

eso-midas-testdata is:

The ESO-MIDAS system provides general tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La Silla and the VLT at Paranal. In addition it contains applications packages for stellar and surface photometry, image sharpening and decomposition, statistics and various others.

This package contains the test data files required for verification.

There are three methods to install eso-midas-testdata 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 eso-midas-testdata Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install eso-midas-testdata

Install eso-midas-testdata Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install eso-midas-testdata using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install eso-midas-testdata

Install eso-midas-testdata 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 eso-midas-testdata using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install eso-midas-testdata

How To Uninstall eso-midas-testdata on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the eso-midas-testdata package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove eso-midas-testdata

Uninstall eso-midas-testdata And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove eso-midas-testdata

Remove eso-midas-testdata Configurations and Data

To remove eso-midas-testdata configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge eso-midas-testdata

Remove eso-midas-testdata configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove eso-midas-testdata configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eso-midas-testdata

Dependencies

eso-midas-testdata have the following dependencies:

• eso-midas

References

• eso-midas-testdata website

Summary

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