How To Install webmagick on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is webmagick

webmagick is:

WebMagick provides a means of easily putting image collections on the Web. It recurses through directory trees, building HTML pages and imagemap (GIF or JPEG) files to allow the user to navigate through collections of thumbnail images (somewhat similar to ‘xv’) and select the images to view with a mouse click.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install webmagick

Install webmagick Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install webmagick

Install webmagick 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 webmagick using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install webmagick

How To Uninstall webmagick on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove webmagick

Uninstall webmagick And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove webmagick

Remove webmagick Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge webmagick

Remove webmagick configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge webmagick

Dependencies

webmagick have the following dependencies:

• graphicsmagick
• libgraphics-magick-perl
• ghostscript
• gsfonts

References

• webmagick website

Summary

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