How To Install libgeos-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgeos-dev
on Kali Linux.
What is libgeos-dev
libgeos-dev is:
GEOS provides a spatial object model and fundamental geometric functions. It implements the geometry model defined in the OpenGIS Consortium Simple Features Specification for SQL.
This package contains the headers and libraries needed to develop programs using GEOS.
There are three methods to install libgeos-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 libgeos-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install libgeos-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install libgeos-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install libgeos-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
Install libgeos-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.
After updating apt database, We can install libgeos-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libgeos-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libgeos-dev
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall libgeos-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgeos-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove libgeos-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libgeos-dev
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove libgeos-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgeos-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
libgeos-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgeos-dev
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.