How To Install liblapack-doc on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblapack-doc on Kali Linux.

What is liblapack-doc

liblapack-doc is:

LAPACK version 3.X is a comprehensive FORTRAN library that does linear algebra operations including matrix inversions, least squared solutions to linear sets of equations, eigenvector analysis, singular value decomposition, etc. It is a very comprehensive and reputable package that has found extensive use in the scientific community.

This package contains:

• manpages of BLAS and LAPACK routines,
• the Lapack User’s Guide manual (in HTML),
• the manual for the LAPACKE C interface to LAPACK (in PDF).

There are three methods to install liblapack-doc 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 liblapack-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install liblapack-doc

Install liblapack-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install liblapack-doc

Install liblapack-doc 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 liblapack-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblapack-doc

How To Uninstall liblapack-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the liblapack-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblapack-doc

Uninstall liblapack-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblapack-doc

Remove liblapack-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge liblapack-doc

Remove liblapack-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblapack-doc

Dependencies

liblapack-doc have the following dependencies:

References

• liblapack-doc website

Summary

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