How To Install libarb on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libarb on Kali Linux.
What is libarb
libarb is:
ARB is a graphical suite of tools for sequence database handling and data analysis. A central database of processed (aligned) sequences and any type of additional data linked to the sequence entries is structured according to phylogeny or other user-defined criteria.
The ARB project (from the Latin “arbor”, a tree) is a joint initiative of the Lehrstuhl fuer Mikrobiologie http://www.mikro.biologie.tu-muenchen.de/ and the Lehrstuhl fuer Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/ of the Technical University of Munich.
This package provides the dynamic libraries which are used by ARB.
There are three methods to install libarb 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 libarb Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libarb using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libarbInstall libarb Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libarb using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libarbInstall libarb 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libarb using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libarbHow To Uninstall libarb on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libarb package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libarbUninstall libarb And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libarb and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libarbRemove libarb Configurations and Data
To remove libarb configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libarbRemove libarb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libarb configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libarbDependencies
libarb have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libarb package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
