How To Install altos on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is altos

altos is:

Firmware and utilities needed to support high power model rocketry products
from Altus Metrum, including TeleMetrum, TeleMini, and TeleDongle.

See http://altusmetrum.org/ for more information.

There are three methods to install altos 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 altos Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install altos

Install altos Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install altos using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install altos

Install altos 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 altos using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install altos

How To Uninstall altos on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the altos package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove altos

Uninstall altos And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove altos

Remove altos Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge altos

Remove altos configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge altos

Dependencies

altos have the following dependencies:

• default-jre
• freetts
• libjfreechart-java
• nickle
• libc6
• libelf1
• libjansson4
• libjson-c5
• libreadline8
• libusb-1.0-0

References

• altos website

Summary

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