How To Install science-engineering on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install science-engineering on Kali Linux.

What is science-engineering

science-engineering is:

This metapackage is part of the Debian Pure Blend “Debian Science” and installs packages related to Engineering.

Please note that there is an additional package engineering-dev which depends from packages which are useful to develop engineering related software.

There are three methods to install science-engineering 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 science-engineering Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install science-engineering

Install science-engineering Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install science-engineering

Install science-engineering 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 science-engineering using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install science-engineering

How To Uninstall science-engineering on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the science-engineering package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove science-engineering

Uninstall science-engineering And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove science-engineering

Remove science-engineering Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge science-engineering

Remove science-engineering configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge science-engineering

Dependencies

science-engineering have the following dependencies:

• science-config
• science-tasks

References

• science-engineering website

Summary

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