How To Install libpostgis-java on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpostgis-java
on Kali Linux.
What is libpostgis-java
libpostgis-java is:
PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS “spatially enables” the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRI’s SDE or Oracle’s Spatial extension. PostGIS follows the OpenGIS “Simple Features Specification for SQL”.
This package contains JDBC support for PostGIS.
There are three methods to install libpostgis-java
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 libpostgis-java Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install libpostgis-java
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install libpostgis-java Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install libpostgis-java
using apt
by running the following command:
Install libpostgis-java 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.
After updating apt database, We can install libpostgis-java
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libpostgis-java on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libpostgis-java
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall libpostgis-java And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpostgis-java
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove libpostgis-java Configurations and Data
To remove libpostgis-java
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove libpostgis-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpostgis-java
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
libpostgis-java have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpostgis-java
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.