How To Install liboctave8 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboctave8 on Kali Linux.

What is liboctave8

liboctave8 is:

Octave is a (mostly MATLAB? compatible) high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.

This package provides the shared libraries used by the interpreter.

There are three methods to install liboctave8 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 liboctave8 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liboctave8 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liboctave8

Install liboctave8 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liboctave8 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liboctave8

Install liboctave8 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 liboctave8 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liboctave8

How To Uninstall liboctave8 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the liboctave8 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liboctave8

Uninstall liboctave8 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liboctave8 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboctave8

Remove liboctave8 Configurations and Data

To remove liboctave8 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liboctave8

Remove liboctave8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liboctave8 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboctave8

Dependencies

liboctave8 have the following dependencies:

• libamd2

References

• liboctave8 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboctave8 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.