How To Install starlink-topcat-java on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install starlink-topcat-java on Kali Linux. starlink-topcat-java is Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables (Java library)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install starlink-topcat-java on Kali Linux.

starlink-topcat-java is:

TOPCAT is an interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data. Its aim is to provide most of the facilities that astronomers need for analysis and manipulation of source catalogues and other tables, though it can be used for non-astronomical data as well. It understands a number of different astronomically important formats (including FITS and VOTable) and more formats can be added.

There are three methods to install starlink-topcat-java 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.

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install starlink-topcat-java

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install starlink-topcat-java using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install starlink-topcat-java

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 starlink-topcat-java using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install starlink-topcat-java

To uninstall only the starlink-topcat-java package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove starlink-topcat-java

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove starlink-topcat-java

To remove starlink-topcat-java configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge starlink-topcat-java

We can use the following command to remove starlink-topcat-java configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge starlink-topcat-java

Dependencies

starlink-topcat-java have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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