How To Install geotiff-bin on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geotiff-bin on Kali Linux.
What is geotiff-bin
geotiff-bin is:
This C library supports TIFF 6.0 based interchange format for georeferenced raster imagery. The GeoTIFF standard has been developed for reading, and writing geographic meta-information tags on top of TIFF raster.
The GeoTIFF library comes with two utility programs here included:
listgeo - dumps the metadata of a GeoTIFF file. geotifcp - applies metadata to a TIFF file, making it a GeoTIFF file.
There are three methods to install geotiff-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 geotiff-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install geotiff-bin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install geotiff-binInstall geotiff-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install geotiff-bin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install geotiff-binInstall geotiff-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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install geotiff-bin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install geotiff-binHow To Uninstall geotiff-bin on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the geotiff-bin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove geotiff-binUninstall geotiff-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall geotiff-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove geotiff-binRemove geotiff-bin Configurations and Data
To remove geotiff-bin configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge geotiff-binRemove geotiff-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove geotiff-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geotiff-binDependencies
geotiff-bin have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geotiff-bin package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.