How To Install libotb on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is libotb

libotb is:

ORFEO Toolbox (OTB) is distributed as an open source library of image processing algorithms. OTB is based on the medical image processing library ITK and offers particular functionalities for remote sensing image processing in general and for high spatial resolution images in particular.

This metapackage provides all shared libraries used by OTB.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libotb

Install libotb Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libotb

Install libotb 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 libotb using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libotb

How To Uninstall libotb on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove libotb

Uninstall libotb And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libotb

Remove libotb Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libotb

Remove libotb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libotb

Dependencies

libotb have the following dependencies:

• libotbapplicationengine-7.2-1
• libotbcarto-7.2-1
• libotbcommandline-7.2-1
• libotbcommon-7.2-1
• libotbcurladapters-7.2-1
• libotbextendedfilename-7.2-1
• libotbfuzzy-7.2-1
• libotbgdaladapters-7.2-1
• libotbice-7.2-1
• libotbimagebase-7.2-1
• libotbimageio-7.2-1
• libotbimagemanipulation-7.2-1
• libotbiobsq-7.2-1
• libotbiogdal-7.2-1
• libotbiokml-7.2-1
• libotbiolum-7.2-1
• libotbiomstar-7.2-1
• libotbioonera-7.2-1
• libotbiorad-7.2-1
• libotblearningbase-7.2-1
• libotbmathparser-7.2-1
• libotbmathparserx-7.2-1
• libotbmetadata-7.2-1
• libotbossimadapters-7.2-1
• libotbossimplugins-7.2-1
• libotbpolarimetry-7.2-1
• libotbprojection-7.2-1
• libotbqtwidget-7.2-1
• libotbsampling-7.2-1
• libotbsiftfast-7.2-1
• libotbstatistics-7.2-1
• libotbstreaming-7.2-1
• libotbsupervised-7.2-1
• libotbtestkernel-7.2-1
• libotbvectordatabase-7.2-1
• libotbvectordataio-7.2-1
• libotbwavelet-7.2-1

References

• libotb website

Summary

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