How To Install octave-linear-algebra on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-linear-algebra on Kali Linux.

What is octave-linear-algebra

octave-linear-algebra is:

This package provides additional functions to work on linear algebra code in Octave, a numerical computation software. This package includies general singular value methods to factorize a matrix (bicg), function to calculate the condition numbers of eigenvalues of a matrix (condeig), a matrix equivalent of the Octave function name (funm) and trigonometric/hyperbolic functions for square matrixes.

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

There are three methods to install octave-linear-algebra 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-linear-algebra 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-linear-algebra using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install octave-linear-algebra

Install octave-linear-algebra Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install octave-linear-algebra

Install octave-linear-algebra 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-linear-algebra using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install octave-linear-algebra

How To Uninstall octave-linear-algebra on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the octave-linear-algebra package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove octave-linear-algebra

Uninstall octave-linear-algebra And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove octave-linear-algebra

Remove octave-linear-algebra Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge octave-linear-algebra

Remove octave-linear-algebra configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge octave-linear-algebra

Dependencies

octave-linear-algebra have the following dependencies:

• octave

References

• octave-linear-algebra website

Summary

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