How To Install astrometry-data-tycho2 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install astrometry-data-tycho2 on Kali Linux.

What is astrometry-data-tycho2

astrometry-data-tycho2 is:

The astrometry engine will take any image and return the astrometry
world coordinate system (WCS), a standards-based description of the
transformation between image coordinates and sky coordinates.

This package installs all index file from the Tycho-2 catalog.

There are three methods to install astrometry-data-tycho2 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 astrometry-data-tycho2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install astrometry-data-tycho2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install astrometry-data-tycho2

Install astrometry-data-tycho2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install astrometry-data-tycho2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install astrometry-data-tycho2

Install astrometry-data-tycho2 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 astrometry-data-tycho2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install astrometry-data-tycho2

How To Uninstall astrometry-data-tycho2 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the astrometry-data-tycho2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove astrometry-data-tycho2

Uninstall astrometry-data-tycho2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall astrometry-data-tycho2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove astrometry-data-tycho2

Remove astrometry-data-tycho2 Configurations and Data

To remove astrometry-data-tycho2 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge astrometry-data-tycho2

Remove astrometry-data-tycho2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove astrometry-data-tycho2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge astrometry-data-tycho2

Dependencies

astrometry-data-tycho2 have the following dependencies:

• astrometry-data-tycho2-07
• astrometry-data-tycho2-08
• astrometry-data-tycho2-09
• astrometry-data-tycho2-10-19

References

• astrometry-data-tycho2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install astrometry-data-tycho2 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.