How To Install metar on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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 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 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 metar using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install metar

How To Uninstall metar on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove metar

Remove metar Configurations and Data

To remove metar configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• libc6
• libcurl4

References

• metar website

Summary

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