How To Install libgdal-perl on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgdal-perl
on Kali Linux.
What is libgdal-perl
libgdal-perl is:
GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. The related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data.
GDAL supports 40+ popular data formats, including commonly used ones (GeoTIFF, JPEG, PNG and more) as well as the ones used in GIS and remote sensing software packages (ERDAS Imagine, ESRI Arc/Info, ENVI, PCI Geomatics). Also supported many remote sensing and scientific data distribution formats such as HDF, EOS FAST, NOAA L1B, NetCDF, FITS.
OGR library supports popular vector formats like ESRI Shapefile, TIGER data, S57, MapInfo File, DGN, GML and more.
This package contains Perl bindings for the GDAL/OGR library.
There are three methods to install libgdal-perl
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 libgdal-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libgdal-perl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgdal-perl
Install libgdal-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libgdal-perl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgdal-perl
Install libgdal-perl 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 libgdal-perl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgdal-perl
How To Uninstall libgdal-perl on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libgdal-perl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgdal-perl
Uninstall libgdal-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgdal-perl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgdal-perl
Remove libgdal-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libgdal-perl
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgdal-perl
Remove libgdal-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgdal-perl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgdal-perl
Dependencies
libgdal-perl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgdal-perl
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.