How To Install units on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install units on Kali Linux. units is converts between different systems of units

Introduction

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

What is units

units is:

GNU ‘units’ program converts quantities expressed in various scales to their equivalents in other scales. The ‘units’ program can only handle multiplicative scale changes directly. It uses a functional notation for non-proportional conversions such a Fahrenheit temperature to Celsius temperature.

This package includes the units_cur script to update currency conversion information; this script requires a Python 3 interpreter and the python3-requests library.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install units

Install units Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install units

Install units 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 units using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install units

How To Uninstall units on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove units

Uninstall units And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove units

Remove units Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge units

Remove units configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge units

Dependencies

units have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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