How To Install xtide-coastline on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xtide-coastline on Kali Linux.

What is xtide-coastline

xtide-coastline is:

XTide is a package that provides tide and current predictions in a wide variety of formats. This package enables the xtide package to display the world’s coastlines (World Vector Shoreline data) when displaying the Earth to select tidal stations.

Works automatically with xtide 2.9.5-2; See README.Debian if using an earlier version.

There are three methods to install xtide-coastline 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 xtide-coastline Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install xtide-coastline

Install xtide-coastline Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install xtide-coastline

Install xtide-coastline 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 xtide-coastline using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install xtide-coastline

How To Uninstall xtide-coastline on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the xtide-coastline package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove xtide-coastline

Uninstall xtide-coastline And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove xtide-coastline

Remove xtide-coastline Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge xtide-coastline

Remove xtide-coastline configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xtide-coastline

Dependencies

xtide-coastline have the following dependencies:

References

• xtide-coastline website

Summary

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