How to Install and Uninstall libtesseract5 Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 28,2024

1. Install "libtesseract5" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install libtesseract5 on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libtesseract5
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libtesseract5" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall libtesseract5 on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libtesseract5
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libtesseract5 package on Kali Linux

Package: libtesseract5
Source: tesseract
Version: 5.3.4-1
Installed-Size: 3631
Maintainer: Alexander Pozdnyakov
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: tesseract-ocr (<< 3.01~)
Depends: libarchive13 (>= 3.0.4), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcurl4 (>= 7.16.2), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libgomp1 (>= 4.9), liblept5 (>= 1.75.3), libstdc++6 (>= 13.1)
Breaks: ocropus (<< 0.4.0~), tesseract-ocr (<< 3.01~)
Size: 1314892
SHA256: 177d07650b945584b1e7722b0f636a96c48b92df8054b9b288deaf06b90c40b4
SHA1: 8f4a6f4ffea1fa0d11a35643a55a254e4d929c57
MD5sum: 3c9c8efd9a59a53e7d54c84596196b1e
Description: Tesseract OCR library
Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Engine. It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to
extract printed text from images. It supports a wide variety of
languages. This package includes the shared library.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/tesseract/libtesseract5_5.3.4-1_amd64.deb