How To Install fdb5 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fdb5
on Kali Linux.
What is fdb5
fdb5 is:
FDB (Fields DataBase) is a domain-specific object store developed at ECMWF for storing, indexing and retrieving GRIB data. Each GRIB message is stored as a field and indexed trough semantic metadata (i.e. physical variables such as temperature, pressure, …). A set of fields can be retrieved specifying a request using a specific language developed for accessing the MARS Archive.
There are three methods to install fdb5
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 fdb5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fdb5
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fdb5
Install fdb5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fdb5
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fdb5
Install fdb5 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 fdb5
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fdb5
How To Uninstall fdb5 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the fdb5
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fdb5
Uninstall fdb5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fdb5
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fdb5
Remove fdb5 Configurations and Data
To remove fdb5
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fdb5
Remove fdb5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fdb5
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fdb5
Dependencies
fdb5 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fdb5
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.