How To Install topcat-doc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install topcat-doc on Kali Linux. topcat-doc is Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables (documentation)

Introduction

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

What is topcat-doc

topcat-doc 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.

This package contains the user documentation.

There are three methods to install topcat-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 topcat-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 topcat-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install topcat-doc

Install topcat-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install topcat-doc

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

sudo aptitude -y install topcat-doc

How To Uninstall topcat-doc on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove topcat-doc

Uninstall topcat-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove topcat-doc

Remove topcat-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge topcat-doc

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

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

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

Dependencies

topcat-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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