How To Install gem-plugin-tiff on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install gem-plugin-tiff on Kali Linux. gem-plugin-tiff is Graphics Environment for Multimedia - TIFF support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gem-plugin-tiff on Kali Linux.

What is gem-plugin-tiff

gem-plugin-tiff is:

Gem is a loadable library for Pure Data (Pd), which adds OpenGL graphics rendering and animation to Pd. Pd is a graphical programming language and computer music system.

This package provides image input and output using the libtiff library. If you have installed the gem-plugin-magick package as well, you might find that you don’t need this package as you can already read and write TIFF images.

There are three methods to install gem-plugin-tiff 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 gem-plugin-tiff Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gem-plugin-tiff

Install gem-plugin-tiff Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gem-plugin-tiff using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gem-plugin-tiff

Install gem-plugin-tiff 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 gem-plugin-tiff using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gem-plugin-tiff

How To Uninstall gem-plugin-tiff on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gem-plugin-tiff package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gem-plugin-tiff

Uninstall gem-plugin-tiff And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gem-plugin-tiff

Remove gem-plugin-tiff Configurations and Data

To remove gem-plugin-tiff configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gem-plugin-tiff

Remove gem-plugin-tiff configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gem-plugin-tiff configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gem-plugin-tiff

Dependencies

gem-plugin-tiff have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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