How To Install libhocr0 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhocr0 on Kali Linux.

What is libhocr0

libhocr0 is:

Libhocr is an Hebrew OCR (Optical character recognition) library written in C/C++.

This package contains the libhocr library and the hocr command line utility, which can process PBM file formats

There are three methods to install libhocr0 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 libhocr0 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libhocr0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libhocr0

Install libhocr0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libhocr0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libhocr0

Install libhocr0 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 libhocr0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libhocr0

How To Uninstall libhocr0 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libhocr0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libhocr0

Uninstall libhocr0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libhocr0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhocr0

Remove libhocr0 Configurations and Data

To remove libhocr0 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libhocr0

Remove libhocr0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libhocr0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhocr0

Dependencies

libhocr0 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libfftw3-double3
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-0
• libtiff5

References

• libhocr0 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhocr0 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.