How To Install xtide 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 xtide on Ubuntu.
What is xtide
xtide 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.
XTide can work with the X window system, plain text terminals, or the web. This is accomplished with three separate programs: the interactive interface (xtide), the non-interactive or command line interface (tide), and the web interface (xttpd).
The algorithm that XTide uses to predict tides is used by the National Ocean Service in the U.S. It is significantly more accurate than the simple tide clocks that can be bought in novelty stores. However, it takes more to predict tides accurately than just a spiffy algorithm – data are required for every tidal prediction location. This package provides a sample data set for only one location so you can try out the package, but anything useful requires the data packaged in the xtide-data package (or downloaded from the XTide ftp site).
There are three methods to install xtide 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 xtide 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xtide
Install xtide Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xtide using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xtide
Install xtide 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 xtide using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xtide
How To Uninstall xtide on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the xtide package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xtide
Uninstall xtide And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xtide and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xtide
Remove xtide Configurations and Data
To remove xtide configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xtide
Remove xtide configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xtide configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xtide
Dependencies
xtide have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xtide package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.