How To Install golly on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is golly

golly is:

Golly simulates Conway’s Game of Life with an arbitrarily large grid of cells. It can optionally use a hashlife algorithm, which allows it to rapidly compute generations for huge patterns, and to compute many generations into the future at a time.

Golly provides a graphical interface for viewing and editing cellular automata. It supports copy and paste, zoom, auto-fit, multiple layers, and viewing different areas of a pattern simultaneously in different areas of a window.

Golly can load patterns from RLE, Life 1.05/1.06, dblife, and macrocell file formats; it can also interpret images as Life patterns. Golly provides integrated help, including a copy of the Life Lexicon.

Golly also supports other rules for 2D cellular automata with an 8-cell neighborhood, and supports 1D cellular automata.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install golly

Install golly Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install golly

Install golly 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 golly using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install golly

How To Uninstall golly on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove golly

Uninstall golly And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove golly

Remove golly Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge golly

Remove golly configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge golly

Dependencies

golly have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• golly website

Summary

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