How To Install odc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install odc on Kali Linux. odc is Tools for the Observational Data Processing (ODB)

Introduction

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

What is odc

odc is:

ODC is software developed at ECMWF for encoding and processing o observational data. It includes a SQL filtering and statistics engine, command line tools and APIs for C/C++ and Fortran.

This package provides tools for ODB handling.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install odc

Install odc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install odc

Install odc 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 odc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install odc

How To Uninstall odc on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove odc

Uninstall odc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove odc

Remove odc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge odc

Remove odc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge odc

Dependencies

odc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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