How To Install libastrometry0 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libastrometry0 on Kali Linux.

What is libastrometry0

libastrometry0 is:

The astrometry engine will take any image and return the astrometry world coordinate system (WCS), a standards-based description of the transformation between image coordinates and sky coordinates.

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install libastrometry0 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 libastrometry0 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libastrometry0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libastrometry0

Install libastrometry0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libastrometry0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libastrometry0

Install libastrometry0 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 libastrometry0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libastrometry0

How To Uninstall libastrometry0 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libastrometry0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libastrometry0

Uninstall libastrometry0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libastrometry0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libastrometry0

Remove libastrometry0 Configurations and Data

To remove libastrometry0 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libastrometry0

Remove libastrometry0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libastrometry0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libastrometry0

Dependencies

libastrometry0 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgsl25
• libwcs7

References

• libastrometry0 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libastrometry0 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.