How To Install alfa on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is alfa

alfa is:

ALFA measures fluxes in emission line spectra, such as those of planetary
nebulae and HII regions, using a genetic algorithm to rapidly optimise fits
to large numbers of lines simultaneously. It can subtract night sky emission
lines before fitting the nebular lines if necessary. It can read plain text
files containing 1D spectral data, or FITS files containing 1D, 2D or 3D
datasets.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install alfa

Install alfa Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install alfa

Install alfa 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 alfa using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install alfa

How To Uninstall alfa on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove alfa

Uninstall alfa And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove alfa

Remove alfa Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge alfa

Remove alfa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alfa

Dependencies

alfa have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libcfitsio9
• libgfortran5
• libgomp1

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References

• alfa website

Summary

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