How To Install xtide-data on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is xtide-data

xtide-data is:

XTide is a package that provides tide and current predictions in a wide variety of formats. Graphs, text listings, and calendars can be generated, or a tide clock can be provided on your desktop.

This package provides the harmonics data used by the xtide package to display tidal information for most parts of the world. The data are packaged separately from xtide because they may be updated separately.

Some data omitted from the upstream harmonics file because of restrictions on commercial distribution and were included in the non-free package xtide-data-nonfree.

There are three methods to install xtide-data 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-data 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-data using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install xtide-data

Install xtide-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install xtide-data

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

sudo aptitude -y install xtide-data

How To Uninstall xtide-data on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove xtide-data

Uninstall xtide-data And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove xtide-data

Remove xtide-data Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge xtide-data

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

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

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

Dependencies

xtide-data have the following dependencies:

References

• xtide-data website

Summary

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