How To Install libtesseract4 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtesseract4 on Kali Linux.
What is libtesseract4
libtesseract4 is:
Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine. It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to extract printed text from images. It supports a wide variety of languages. This package includes the shared library.
There are three methods to install libtesseract4 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 libtesseract4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libtesseract4 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtesseract4Install libtesseract4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libtesseract4 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtesseract4Install libtesseract4 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 libtesseract4 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtesseract4How To Uninstall libtesseract4 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libtesseract4 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtesseract4Uninstall libtesseract4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtesseract4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtesseract4Remove libtesseract4 Configurations and Data
To remove libtesseract4 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtesseract4Remove libtesseract4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtesseract4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtesseract4Dependencies
libtesseract4 have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtesseract4 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
