How To Install cylc-flow on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cylc-flow on Kali Linux.
What is cylc-flow
cylc-flow is:
Cylc (“silk”) is a suite engine and meta-scheduler that specializes in suites of cycling tasks for weather forecasting, climate modeling, and related processing (it can also be used for one-off workflows of non-cycling tasks, which is a simpler problem).
There are three methods to install cylc-flow 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 cylc-flow Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cylc-flow using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cylc-flowInstall cylc-flow Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cylc-flow using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cylc-flowInstall cylc-flow 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cylc-flow using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cylc-flowHow To Uninstall cylc-flow on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cylc-flow package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cylc-flowUninstall cylc-flow And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cylc-flow and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cylc-flowRemove cylc-flow Configurations and Data
To remove cylc-flow configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cylc-flowRemove cylc-flow configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cylc-flow configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cylc-flowDependencies
cylc-flow have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cylc-flow package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
