How To Install libsilo-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsilo-dev on Kali Linux.
What is libsilo-dev
libsilo-dev is:
Silo is a library for reading and writing a wide variety of scientific data to binary, disk files. The files Silo produces and the data within them can be easily shared and exchanged between wholly independently developed applications running on disparate computing platforms. Consequently, Silo facilitates the development of general purpose tools for processing scientific data. One of the more popular tools that process Silo data files is the VisIt visualization tool.
Silo supports gridless (point) meshes, structured meshes, unstructured-zoo and unstructured-arbitrary-polyhedral meshes, block structured AMR meshes, constructive solid geometry (CSG) meshes, piecewise-constant (e.g. zone-centered) and piecewise-linear (e.g. node-centered) variables defined on the node, edge, face or volume elements of meshes as well as the decomposition of meshes into arbitrary subset hierarchies including materials and mixing materials. In addition, Silo supports a wide variety of other useful objects to address various scientific computing application needs. Although the Silo library is a serial library, it has some key features which enable it to be applied quite effectively and scalable in parallel.
Architecturally, the library is divided into two main pieces; an upper-level application programming interface (API) and a lower-level I/O implementation called a driver. Silo supports multiple I/O drivers, the two most common of which are the HDF5 (Hierarchical Data Format 5) and PDB (Portable Data Base) drivers.
There are three methods to install libsilo-dev 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 libsilo-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libsilo-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsilo-devInstall libsilo-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libsilo-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsilo-devInstall libsilo-dev 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libsilo-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsilo-devHow To Uninstall libsilo-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libsilo-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsilo-devUninstall libsilo-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsilo-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsilo-devRemove libsilo-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libsilo-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsilo-devRemove libsilo-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsilo-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsilo-devDependencies
libsilo-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsilo-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
