How To Install visidata on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install visidata on Kali Linux. visidata is rapidly explore columnar data in the terminal

Introduction

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

What is visidata

visidata is:

VisiData is a multipurpose terminal utility for exploring, cleaning, restructuring and analysing tabular data. Current supported sources are TSV, CSV, fixed-width text, JSON, SQLite, HTTP, HTML, .xls, and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel).

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install visidata

Install visidata Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install visidata

Install visidata 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 visidata using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install visidata

How To Uninstall visidata on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove visidata

Uninstall visidata And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove visidata

Remove visidata Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge visidata

Remove visidata configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge visidata

Dependencies

visidata have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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