How To Install postgresql-13-pointcloud on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install postgresql-13-pointcloud on Kali Linux.

What is postgresql-13-pointcloud

postgresql-13-pointcloud is:

LIDAR sensors quickly produce millions of points with large numbers of variables measured on each point. The challenge for a point cloud database extension is efficiently storing this data while allowing high fidelity access to the many variables stored.

Much of the complexity in handling LIDAR comes from the need to deal with multiple variables per point. The variables captured by LIDAR sensors varies by sensor and capture process. Some data sets might contain only X/Y/Z values. Others will contain dozens of variables: X, Y, Z; intensity and return number; red, green, and blue values; return times; and many more. There is no consistency in how variables are stored: intensity might be stored in a 4-byte integer, or in a single byte; X/Y/Z might be doubles, or they might be scaled 4-byte integers.

PostgreSQL Pointcloud deals with all this variability by using a “schema document” to describe the contents of any particular LIDAR point. Each point contains a number of dimensions, and each dimension can be of any data type, with scaling and/or offsets applied to move between the actual value and the value stored in the database. The schema document format used by PostgreSQL Pointcloud is the same one used by the PDAL library.

There are three methods to install postgresql-13-pointcloud 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 postgresql-13-pointcloud Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install postgresql-13-pointcloud using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install postgresql-13-pointcloud

Install postgresql-13-pointcloud Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install postgresql-13-pointcloud using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install postgresql-13-pointcloud

Install postgresql-13-pointcloud 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 postgresql-13-pointcloud using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install postgresql-13-pointcloud

How To Uninstall postgresql-13-pointcloud on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the postgresql-13-pointcloud package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove postgresql-13-pointcloud

Uninstall postgresql-13-pointcloud And Its Dependencies

To uninstall postgresql-13-pointcloud and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove postgresql-13-pointcloud

Remove postgresql-13-pointcloud Configurations and Data

To remove postgresql-13-pointcloud configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge postgresql-13-pointcloud

Remove postgresql-13-pointcloud configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove postgresql-13-pointcloud configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge postgresql-13-pointcloud

Dependencies

postgresql-13-pointcloud have the following dependencies:

• postgresql-13
• libc6
• libxml2
• zlib1g

References

• postgresql-13-pointcloud website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install postgresql-13-pointcloud package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.