How To Install libgdal28 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgdal28 on Kali Linux.
What is libgdal28
libgdal28 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 many 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 the shared library.
There are three methods to install libgdal28 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 libgdal28 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libgdal28 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgdal28Install libgdal28 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libgdal28 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgdal28Install libgdal28 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libgdal28 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgdal28How To Uninstall libgdal28 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libgdal28 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgdal28Uninstall libgdal28 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgdal28 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgdal28Remove libgdal28 Configurations and Data
To remove libgdal28 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgdal28Remove libgdal28 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgdal28 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgdal28Dependencies
libgdal28 have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgdal28 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.