How To Install libmagickcore-6-headers on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmagickcore-6-headers on Kali Linux.

What is libmagickcore-6-headers

libmagickcore-6-headers is:

The MagickCore API is a low-level interface between the C programming language and the ImageMagick image processing libraries and is recommended for wizard-level programmers only. Unlike the MagickWand C API which uses only a few opaque types and accessors, with MagickCore you almost exclusively access the structure members directly.

This package includes the architecture independent header files needed to compile programs using MagickCore.

This package is independent of channel depth.

There are three methods to install libmagickcore-6-headers 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 libmagickcore-6-headers Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libmagickcore-6-headers using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmagickcore-6-headers

Install libmagickcore-6-headers Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libmagickcore-6-headers using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libmagickcore-6-headers

Install libmagickcore-6-headers 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 libmagickcore-6-headers using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmagickcore-6-headers

How To Uninstall libmagickcore-6-headers on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libmagickcore-6-headers package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmagickcore-6-headers

Uninstall libmagickcore-6-headers And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmagickcore-6-headers and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmagickcore-6-headers

Remove libmagickcore-6-headers Configurations and Data

To remove libmagickcore-6-headers configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmagickcore-6-headers

Remove libmagickcore-6-headers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libmagickcore-6-headers configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmagickcore-6-headers

Dependencies

libmagickcore-6-headers have the following dependencies:

• dpkg
• imagemagick-6-common

References

• libmagickcore-6-headers website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmagickcore-6-headers package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.