How To Install libapophenia2-dev on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libapophenia2-dev on Kali Linux. libapophenia2-dev is Apophenia Statistical C Library – development package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libapophenia2-dev on Kali Linux.

What is libapophenia2-dev

libapophenia2-dev is:

The Apophenia Statistical C Library is an open source C library for working with data sets and statistical models. It provides functions on the same level as those of the typical stats packages (such as OLS, probit, or singular value decomposition) but gives the user more flexibility to be creative in model-building.

Apophenia is meant to scale well, to comfortably work with gigabyte data sets, million-step simulations, or computationally-intensive agent-based models.

Apophenia builds upon the GNU Scientific and SQLite libraries, MySQL/mariaDB is also supported. The core functions are written in C, but experience has shown them to be easy to bind in Python, Julia, Perl, Ruby, etc. The source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPL2).

This package contains the header files, static libraries and symbolic links that developers using the Apophenia Statistical C Library will need.

There are three methods to install libapophenia2-dev 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 libapophenia2-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libapophenia2-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libapophenia2-dev

Install libapophenia2-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libapophenia2-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libapophenia2-dev

Install libapophenia2-dev 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 libapophenia2-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libapophenia2-dev

How To Uninstall libapophenia2-dev on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libapophenia2-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libapophenia2-dev

Uninstall libapophenia2-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libapophenia2-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libapophenia2-dev

Remove libapophenia2-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libapophenia2-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libapophenia2-dev

Remove libapophenia2-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libapophenia2-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libapophenia2-dev

Dependencies

libapophenia2-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libapophenia2-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.