How To Install libreadosm1 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreadosm1 on Kali Linux. libreadosm1 is simple library to parse OpenStreetMap files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreadosm1 on Kali Linux.

What is libreadosm1

libreadosm1 is:

ReadOSM is an open source library to extract valid data from within an OpenStreetMap input file. Such OSM files come in two different formats, .osm (XML) and .pbf.

Some of the design goals of ReadOSM are:

  • to be simple and lightweight
  • to be stable, robust and efficient
  • to be easily and universally portable
  • making the whole parsing process of both .osm or .osm.pbf files completely transparent from the application own perspective.

There are three methods to install libreadosm1 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 libreadosm1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libreadosm1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libreadosm1

Install libreadosm1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libreadosm1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libreadosm1

Install libreadosm1 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 libreadosm1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libreadosm1

How To Uninstall libreadosm1 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libreadosm1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libreadosm1

Uninstall libreadosm1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libreadosm1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libreadosm1

Remove libreadosm1 Configurations and Data

To remove libreadosm1 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libreadosm1

Remove libreadosm1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libreadosm1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libreadosm1

Dependencies

libreadosm1 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreadosm1 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.