How To Install imageindex on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is imageindex

imageindex is:

Imageindex generates standards-compliant static HTML galleries of images (usually JPG photos, but can deal with images of just about any format). Some features:

* Only out-of-date thumbnail/medium images are generated
* Captions come from comments embedded in images (never get lost!)
* Output is customizable with CSS stylesheets
* Can fetch EXIF header data from digicam photos
* Can optionally recurse directory trees
* Index, detail, slide, and frame views
* Can use mplayer for dealing with video files.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install imageindex

Install imageindex Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install imageindex

Install imageindex 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 imageindex using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install imageindex

How To Uninstall imageindex on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove imageindex

Uninstall imageindex And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove imageindex

Remove imageindex Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge imageindex

Remove imageindex configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imageindex

Dependencies

imageindex have the following dependencies:

• libimage-magick-perl
• imagemagick
• libimage-info-perl
• libperl4-corelibs-perl

References

• imageindex website

Summary

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