How To Install octave-instrument-control on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-instrument-control on Kali Linux.

What is octave-instrument-control

octave-instrument-control is:

This package contains Low level input/output functions for serial, i2c, parallel, tcp, gpib, vxi11 and usbtmc interfaces for use in Octave, a scientific computation software.

This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.

There are three methods to install octave-instrument-control 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 octave-instrument-control Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install octave-instrument-control using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install octave-instrument-control

Install octave-instrument-control Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install octave-instrument-control using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install octave-instrument-control

Install octave-instrument-control 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 octave-instrument-control using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install octave-instrument-control

How To Uninstall octave-instrument-control on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the octave-instrument-control package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove octave-instrument-control

Uninstall octave-instrument-control And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove octave-instrument-control

Remove octave-instrument-control Configurations and Data

To remove octave-instrument-control configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge octave-instrument-control

Remove octave-instrument-control configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove octave-instrument-control configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge octave-instrument-control

Dependencies

octave-instrument-control have the following dependencies:

• octave
• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libstdc++6
• octave-abi-55

References

• octave-instrument-control website

Summary

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