How To Install saods9-doc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install saods9-doc on Kali Linux. saods9-doc is Image display tool for astronomy (help files/documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install saods9-doc on Kali Linux.

What is saods9-doc

saods9-doc is:

SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and colormaps. It provides for easy communication with external analysis tasks and is highly configurable and extensible via XPA and SAMP.

This package contains the documentation and help pages.

There are three methods to install saods9-doc 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 saods9-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install saods9-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install saods9-doc

Install saods9-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install saods9-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install saods9-doc

Install saods9-doc 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 saods9-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install saods9-doc

How To Uninstall saods9-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the saods9-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove saods9-doc

Uninstall saods9-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall saods9-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove saods9-doc

Remove saods9-doc Configurations and Data

To remove saods9-doc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge saods9-doc

Remove saods9-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove saods9-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge saods9-doc

Dependencies

saods9-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install saods9-doc package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.