How To Install gnucap on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnucap on Kali Linux.

What is gnucap

gnucap is:

Gnucap is a general purpose circuit simulator. It performs nonlinear dc and transient analyses, Fourier analysis, and ac analysis linearized at an operating point. It is fully interactive and command driven. It can also be run in batch mode or as a server.

This package contains a main executable and gnucap-modelgen.

There are three methods to install gnucap 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 gnucap Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnucap

Install gnucap Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gnucap using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gnucap

Install gnucap 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 gnucap using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gnucap

How To Uninstall gnucap on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gnucap package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnucap

Uninstall gnucap And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnucap

Remove gnucap Configurations and Data

To remove gnucap configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gnucap

Remove gnucap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnucap

Dependencies

gnucap have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libgnucap0
• libstdc++6

References

• gnucap website

Summary

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