How To Install topcat on Kali Linux

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

Introduction

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

What is topcat

topcat 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 executable.

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

sudo apt-get -y install topcat

Install topcat Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install topcat

Install topcat 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install topcat

How To Uninstall topcat on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove topcat

Uninstall topcat And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove topcat

Remove topcat Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge topcat

Remove topcat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge topcat

Dependencies

topcat have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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