How To Install rrdweather on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdweather on Ubuntu.
What is rrdweather
rrdweather is:
RDWeather is a tool based on RRDtool and weather.com for weather monitoring. It regularly collects weather data from a XML file and put them in nice RRDtool graphs.
There are three methods to install rrdweather on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rrdweather Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rrdweather using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rrdweather
Install rrdweather Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rrdweather using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rrdweather
Install rrdweather 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install rrdweather using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rrdweather
How To Uninstall rrdweather on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the rrdweather package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rrdweather
Uninstall rrdweather And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rrdweather and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rrdweather
Remove rrdweather Configurations and Data
To remove rrdweather configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rrdweather
Remove rrdweather configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rrdweather configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rrdweather
Dependencies
rrdweather have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdweather package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.