How To Install libceres1 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libceres1 on Kali Linux. libceres1 is nonlinear least squares minimizer (shared library)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libceres1 on Kali Linux.

What is libceres1

libceres1 is:

Ceres Solver is an open source C++ library for modeling and solving large, complicated optimization problems. It is a feature rich, mature and performant library which has been used in production at Google since 2010.

Ceres Solver can solve two kinds of problems.

  • Non-linear Least Squares problems with bounds constraints.
  • General unconstrained optimization problems.

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install libceres1 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 libceres1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libceres1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libceres1

Install libceres1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libceres1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libceres1

Install libceres1 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 libceres1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libceres1

How To Uninstall libceres1 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libceres1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libceres1

Uninstall libceres1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libceres1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libceres1

Remove libceres1 Configurations and Data

To remove libceres1 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libceres1

Remove libceres1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libceres1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libceres1

Dependencies

libceres1 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libceres1 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.