How To Install libgeotiff5 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgeotiff5 on Kali Linux.

What is libgeotiff5

libgeotiff5 is:

This C library supports TIFF 6.0 based interchange format for georeferenced raster imagery. The GeoTIFF standard has been developed for reading, and writing geographic meta-information tags on top of TIFF raster.

This package contains the shared library only.

There are three methods to install libgeotiff5 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 libgeotiff5 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libgeotiff5 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libgeotiff5

Install libgeotiff5 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libgeotiff5 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libgeotiff5

Install libgeotiff5 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 libgeotiff5 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgeotiff5

How To Uninstall libgeotiff5 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libgeotiff5 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgeotiff5

Uninstall libgeotiff5 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libgeotiff5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgeotiff5

Remove libgeotiff5 Configurations and Data

To remove libgeotiff5 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libgeotiff5

Remove libgeotiff5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libgeotiff5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgeotiff5

Dependencies

libgeotiff5 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libproj19
• libtiff5

References

• libgeotiff5 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgeotiff5 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.