How To Install libmetkit-utils on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmetkit-utils on Kali Linux. libmetkit-utils is Utilities for the MetKit MARS access library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmetkit-utils on Kali Linux.

What is libmetkit-utils

libmetkit-utils is:

MetKit is a toolkit from ECMWF for manipulating and describing meteorological objects, implementing the MARS language and associated processing and semantics.

This package contains the tool ‘parse-mars-request’

There are three methods to install libmetkit-utils 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 libmetkit-utils Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmetkit-utils

Install libmetkit-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libmetkit-utils

Install libmetkit-utils 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 libmetkit-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmetkit-utils

How To Uninstall libmetkit-utils on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libmetkit-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmetkit-utils

Uninstall libmetkit-utils And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmetkit-utils

Remove libmetkit-utils Configurations and Data

To remove libmetkit-utils configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmetkit-utils

Remove libmetkit-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmetkit-utils

Dependencies

libmetkit-utils have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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