How To Install pymca on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install pymca on Kali Linux. pymca is Applications and toolkit for X-ray fluorescence analysis – scripts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pymca on Kali Linux.

What is pymca

pymca is:

PyMca is set of applications and Python libraries for analysis of X-ray fluorescence spectra.

The applications included in this package are:

  • edfviewer - Display and inspection of data files in ESRF Data Format
  • elementsinfo - Displays element specific X-ray data
  • mca2edf - Converts files from SPEC MCA format to EDF
  • peakidentifier - Displays X-ray fluorescence peaks in a given energy range
  • pymcabatch - Batch fitting of spectra
  • pymcapostbatch - Post-processing of batch fitting results
  • pymca - Interactive data-analysis
  • pymcaroitool - Region-of-interest (ROI) imaging tool

The PyMca toolkit can read data files in SPEC, ESRF data file (EDF), OMNIC, HDF5, AIFIRA and SupaVisio formats.

This are the scripts of the package.

There are three methods to install pymca 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 pymca Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pymca

Install pymca Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pymca using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pymca

Install pymca 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 pymca using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pymca

How To Uninstall pymca on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the pymca package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pymca

Uninstall pymca And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pymca

Remove pymca Configurations and Data

To remove pymca configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pymca

Remove pymca configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pymca

Dependencies

pymca have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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