How To Install libstarlink-ast-dev on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarlink-ast-dev on Kali Linux. libstarlink-ast-dev is Handle World Coordinate Systems in Astronomy (development package)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarlink-ast-dev on Kali Linux.

libstarlink-ast-dev is:

AST implements an object oriented model for describing physical coordinate systems, and the transformations that exist between them.

It provides a comprehensive range of facilities for attaching world coordinate systems (WCS) to astronomical data and for retrieving and manipulating that information.

It has built-in intelligence for identifying types of celestial, spectral, time and other coordinate systems (including compound systems that combine axes of different types) and determining how to transform between them. This allows general purpose code to be written that makes no assumptions about the nature of the coordinate systems.

This package contains the files needed for development.

There are three methods to install libstarlink-ast-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.

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libstarlink-ast-dev

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libstarlink-ast-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libstarlink-ast-dev

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 libstarlink-ast-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libstarlink-ast-dev

To uninstall only the libstarlink-ast-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libstarlink-ast-dev

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libstarlink-ast-dev

To remove libstarlink-ast-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libstarlink-ast-dev

We can use the following command to remove libstarlink-ast-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libstarlink-ast-dev

Dependencies

libstarlink-ast-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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