How To Install totalopenstation on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install totalopenstation on Kali Linux. totalopenstation is download and process data from total station devices

Introduction

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

What is totalopenstation

totalopenstation is:

Total Open Station (TOPS for friends) is a free software program for downloading and processing data from total station devices.

This is a task which is usually done by proprietary, dedicated and Windows??-only software, but TOPS is different by nature, because:

  • it is free software released under the GNU GPLv3 license;
  • it works on any operating system, including mobile platforms like OpenMoko;
  • it is designed to support as many devices and formats as possible, all within the same program, opposed to having one program per device.

Every model has its own quirks, but TOPS uses a modular structure and keeps the downloading of data logically separated from its processing, thus enabling exporting data to a variety of output formats, even at a later moment. Archiving of raw data is made easy by using plain text files.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install totalopenstation

Install totalopenstation Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install totalopenstation

Install totalopenstation 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 totalopenstation using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install totalopenstation

How To Uninstall totalopenstation on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove totalopenstation

Uninstall totalopenstation And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove totalopenstation

Remove totalopenstation Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge totalopenstation

Remove totalopenstation configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge totalopenstation

Dependencies

totalopenstation have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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