How To Install kicad-symbols on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kicad-symbols on Kali Linux.

What is kicad-symbols

kicad-symbols is:

Eeschema is a powerful schematic capture software distributed as part of KiCad which get it’s great and powerful efficiency from the usage of prepared schematics for the various needed schematic symbols.

This package is providing this schematic symbols for Eeschema usable with KiCad >= 5.0.0.

There are three methods to install kicad-symbols 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 kicad-symbols Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kicad-symbols

Install kicad-symbols Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kicad-symbols

Install kicad-symbols 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 kicad-symbols using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kicad-symbols

How To Uninstall kicad-symbols on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the kicad-symbols package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kicad-symbols

Uninstall kicad-symbols And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kicad-symbols

Remove kicad-symbols Configurations and Data

To remove kicad-symbols configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kicad-symbols

Remove kicad-symbols configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kicad-symbols

Dependencies

kicad-symbols have the following dependencies:

References

• kicad-symbols website

Summary

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