How To Install luminance-hdr on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install luminance-hdr on Kali Linux.

What is luminance-hdr

luminance-hdr is:

Features:

• Create an HDR file from a set of images (formats: JPEG, TIFF 8bit and 16bit, RAW) of the same scene taken at different exposure setting.
• Save and load HDR images.
• Rotate and resize HDR images.
• Tonemap HDR images.
• Copy exif data between sets of images.

Supported HDR formats:

• OpenEXR (extension: exr).
• Radiance RGBE (extension: hdr).
• Tiff formats: 16bit, 32bit (float) and LogLuv (extension: tiff).
• Raw image formats (extension: various).
• PFS native format (extension: pfs).

Supported LDR formats: JPEG, PNG, PPM, PBM, TIFF (8 bit).

There are three methods to install luminance-hdr 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 luminance-hdr Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install luminance-hdr

Install luminance-hdr Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install luminance-hdr

Install luminance-hdr 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 luminance-hdr using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install luminance-hdr

How To Uninstall luminance-hdr on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the luminance-hdr package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove luminance-hdr

Uninstall luminance-hdr And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove luminance-hdr

Remove luminance-hdr Configurations and Data

To remove luminance-hdr configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge luminance-hdr

Remove luminance-hdr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge luminance-hdr

Dependencies

luminance-hdr have the following dependencies:

• dcraw
• hugin-tools
• libqt5sql5-sqlite
• libboost-program-options1.74.0
• libc6
• libcfitsio9
• libexiv2-27
• libfftw3-single3
• libgcc-s1
• libgomp1
• libgsl25
• libilmbase25
• libjpeg62-turbo
• liblcms2-2
• libopenexr25
• libpng16-16
• libqt5concurrent5
• libqt5core5a
• libqt5gui5
• libqt5network5
• libqt5printsupport5
• libqt5sql5
• libqt5webkit5
• libqt5widgets5
• libqt5xml5
• libraw20
• libstdc++6
• libtiff5

References

• luminance-hdr website

Summary

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