How To Install libvtk9 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvtk9
on Kali Linux.
What is libvtk9
libvtk9 is:
The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization.
This package provides the shared libraries needed to run C++ programs that use VTK.
There are three methods to install libvtk9
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 libvtk9 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libvtk9
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvtk9
Install libvtk9 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvtk9
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvtk9
Install libvtk9 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 libvtk9
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvtk9
How To Uninstall libvtk9 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libvtk9
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvtk9
Uninstall libvtk9 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvtk9
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvtk9
Remove libvtk9 Configurations and Data
To remove libvtk9
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvtk9
Remove libvtk9 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvtk9
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvtk9
Dependencies
libvtk9 have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libdouble-conversion3
- libexpat1
- libfreetype6
- libgcc-s1
- libgl2ps1.4
- libglew2.1
- libglx0
- libhdf5-103-1
- libjpeg62-turbo
- libjsoncpp24
- liblz4-1
- liblzma5
- libnetcdf18
- libogg0
- libopengl0
- libpng16-16
- libproj19
- libsqlite3-0
- libstdc++6
- libtcl8.6
- libtheora0
- libtiff5
- libtk8.6
- libx11-6
- libxml2
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvtk9
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.