How To Install lunar on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is lunar

lunar is:

The program performs date conversion between the Gregorian Solar Calendar (SC) and the Chinese Lunar Calendar (LC). Given a date in either calendar, the program also outputs the corresponding “shengxiao” animal of the year) and “ganzhi” characters. The date range currently covered is from about 1900 A.D. to 2049 A.D.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lunar

Install lunar Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lunar

Install lunar 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 lunar using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lunar

How To Uninstall lunar on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lunar

Uninstall lunar And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lunar

Remove lunar Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lunar

Remove lunar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lunar

Dependencies

lunar have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• lunar website

Summary

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