How To Install gdsiiconvert on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is gdsiiconvert

gdsiiconvert is:

The command line tool can be used for reporting statistics on GDSII geometries and export them to other file formats, notably including the GMSH geometry format.

It is the “example application” for libGDSII which is a C++ library for working with GDSII binary data files.

This package also contains example GDSII files.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gdsiiconvert

Install gdsiiconvert Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gdsiiconvert

Install gdsiiconvert 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 gdsiiconvert using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gdsiiconvert

How To Uninstall gdsiiconvert on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gdsiiconvert

Uninstall gdsiiconvert And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gdsiiconvert

Remove gdsiiconvert Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gdsiiconvert

Remove gdsiiconvert configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gdsiiconvert

Dependencies

gdsiiconvert have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• gdsiiconvert website

Summary

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