How To Install stiff on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install stiff on Kali Linux. stiff is convert scientific FITS images to the TIFF format

Introduction

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

What is stiff

stiff is:

STIFF is a program that converts scientific FITS images to the TIFF format for illustration purposes. The main features of STIFF are:

  • Accurate reproduction of the original surface brightnesses and colours
  • Automatic or manual contrast and brightness adjustments
  • Automatic sky background intensity and colour balance
  • Adjustable colour saturation
  • Colour-friendly gamma correction capabilities
  • One or three input channels: gray-scale or true colour output
  • Output with 8 or 16 bits per component
  • Pixel rebinning and x/y flip options
  • Support for arbitrarily large input and output images on standard hardware (BigTIFF support)
  • Support for tiled, multiresolution pyramids
  • Support for lossless and lossy compression methods
  • Multi-threaded code with load-balancing to take advantage of multiple cores and processors.
  • XML VOTable-compliant output of meta-data.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install stiff

Install stiff Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install stiff

Install stiff 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 stiff using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install stiff

How To Uninstall stiff on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove stiff

Uninstall stiff And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove stiff

Remove stiff Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge stiff

Remove stiff configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stiff

Dependencies

stiff have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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