How To Install fig2dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fig2dev
on Kali Linux.
What is fig2dev
fig2dev is:
This package contains utilities (mainly fig2dev) to handle XFig (Facility for Interactive Generation of figures) files.
It can convert files produced by xfig to box, cgm, dxf, epic, eepic, eepicemu, emf, eps, gbx (Gerber beta driver), gif, ibmgl, jpeg, latex, map (HTML image map), mf (MetaFont), mp (MetaPost), pcx, pdf, pdftex, pdftex_t, pic, pict2e, pictex, png, ppm, ps, pstex, pstex_t, pstricks, ptk (Perl/Tk), shape (LaTeX shaped paragraphs), sld (AutoCad slide format), svg, textyl, tiff, tikz, tk (Tcl/Tk), tpic, xbm and xpm.
There are three methods to install fig2dev
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 fig2dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install fig2dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install fig2dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install fig2dev
using apt
by running the following command:
Install fig2dev 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.
After updating apt database, We can install fig2dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall fig2dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the fig2dev
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall fig2dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fig2dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove fig2dev Configurations and Data
To remove fig2dev
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove fig2dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fig2dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
fig2dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fig2dev
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.