How To Install python3-fitsio on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-fitsio on Kali Linux. python3-fitsio is Python 3 library to read from and write to FITS files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-fitsio on Kali Linux.

What is python3-fitsio

python3-fitsio is:

Fitsio provides an easy to use object-oriented API including providing a Numpy interface to FITS files read from CFITSIO. It allows direct access to the columns of a FITS binary table which can be useful for reading large fits files. Compared to astropy.io.fits, this package is closer to the underlying cfitsio library.

Fitsio also exposes a microlanguage (implemented in CFITSIO) for making efficient SQL-like queries of tables (single tables only though??no joins or anything like that).

There are three methods to install python3-fitsio 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 python3-fitsio Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-fitsio using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-fitsio

Install python3-fitsio Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-fitsio using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-fitsio

Install python3-fitsio 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 python3-fitsio using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-fitsio

How To Uninstall python3-fitsio on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the python3-fitsio package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-fitsio

Uninstall python3-fitsio And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-fitsio and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-fitsio

Remove python3-fitsio Configurations and Data

To remove python3-fitsio configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-fitsio

Remove python3-fitsio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-fitsio configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-fitsio

Dependencies

python3-fitsio have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-fitsio package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.