Kali Meta-Packages

Recently, my spouse purchased a Software Defined Radio Starter Kit and a Yard Stick One for my birthday.  Yesterday, I finally got a chance to start configuring the Yard Stick One.  I was watching a video on the Hak 5 Shop: https://hakshop.com/products/yard-stick-one, about how to get started configuring and using the Yard Stick One.

There's a program mentioned in the video, gqrx:  http://gqrx.dk, that's supposed to be included with Kali.  I happen to have a couple of Kali VMs, so I decided to try to set up my Yard Stick One on one of the VMs.  The program wasn't on my particular Kali VM.  So, I googled how this could be.  Turns out, that when installing Kali, it's modularized, meaning that one can choose which install of Kali that they want.  With the default install, some tools may not be available.  That is when I learned about this awesome feature of Kali:  You can choose which packages you want with these things called Kali Meta-Packages:  https://tools.kali.org/kali-metapackages.  There is more information on the Kali news site as well:  https://www.kali.org/news/kali-linux-metapackages/.  If you don't have a Kali VM, already, here is how to customize your installation:  https://docs.kali.org/downloading/live-build-a-custom-kali-iso.  If you already have a distro, and want to add a package to it, it's as easy as the following command:

sudo apt-get install <Kali meta-package name>

So, if I want all the software defined radio tools that are available in Kali at this time, I simply type:

sudo apt-get install kali-linux-sdr

That's it.  It's that easy.

What if you don't know the name of the package you want?  This command: "sudo apt-cache search kali-linux", is noted in the website I mentioned earlier in the post:   https://www.kali.org/news/kali-linux-metapackages/, or you can find the meta-packages listing at:  https://tools.kali.org/kali-metapackages.

Hopefully this helps others, because some people on Stack Exchange and other websites were asking how to do this.  I just thought I'd try the normal way of installing packages on Kali and see if it worked.  It did.  Have fun everyone! :)