How To Install metar on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install metar on Debian 10.
What is metar
metar is:
Metar is a small utility that will download meteorological reports for aviation from the NOAA HTTP server at weather.noaa.gov and optionally decodes them into a human readable form.
This package is particularly useful is you want to quickly find out what the weather is like in places all over the world and you do not need fancy GUIs.
There are three methods to install metar on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install metar Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install metar using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install metar
Install metar Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install metar using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install metar
Install metar Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install metar using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install metar
How To Uninstall metar on Debian 10
To uninstall only the metar package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove metar
Uninstall metar And Its Dependencies
To uninstall metar and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove metar
Remove metar Configurations and Data
To remove metar configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge metar
Remove metar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove metar configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge metar
Dependencies
metar have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install metar package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.