How To Install flextra on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is flextra

flextra is:

Trajectory models are important tools for studying transport phenomena in the atmosphere. In the environmental sciences, they are often used to establish source-receptor relationships of air pollutants.

FLEXTRA can be used to calculate different types of forward or backward trajectories, and has facilities to estimate the uncertainty of trajectories. It is specifically designed to compute long time sequences of trajectories for many receptor locations.

FLEXTRA may be used with the Metview meteorological workstation to visualize trajectories.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install flextra

Install flextra Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install flextra

Install flextra 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 flextra using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install flextra

How To Uninstall flextra on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove flextra

Uninstall flextra And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove flextra

Remove flextra Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge flextra

Remove flextra configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flextra

Dependencies

flextra have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libeccodes0
• libgfortran5

References

• flextra website

Summary

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