How To Install gcu-bin on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gcu-bin on Kali Linux.

What is gcu-bin

gcu-bin is:

The GNOME Chemistry Utils provide C++ classes and Gtk+-2 widgets related to chemistry. They will be used in future versions of both gcrystal and gchempaint.

This package provides 4 applications:

• a molecular structures viewer (GChem3D)
• a molar mass calculator (GChemCalc)
• a periodic table of the elements (GChemTable)
• a spectra viewer (GSpectrum)

There are three methods to install gcu-bin 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 gcu-bin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gcu-bin

Install gcu-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gcu-bin

Install gcu-bin 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 gcu-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gcu-bin

How To Uninstall gcu-bin on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gcu-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gcu-bin

Uninstall gcu-bin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gcu-bin

Remove gcu-bin Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gcu-bin

Remove gcu-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gcu-bin

Dependencies

gcu-bin have the following dependencies:

• chemical-mime-data
• libgcu0v5
• libc6
• libcairo2
• libgcc-s1
• libglib2.0-0
• libgoffice-0.10-10
• libgsf-1-114
• libgtk-3-0
• libstdc++6
• libxml2

References

• gcu-bin website

Summary

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