How To Install maffilter-examples on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install maffilter-examples on Kali Linux.

What is maffilter-examples

maffilter-examples is:

MafFilter applies a series of “filters” to a MAF file, in order to clean it, extract data and computer statistics while keeping track of the associated meta-data such as genome coordinates and quality scores.

• It can process the alignment to remove low-quality / ambiguous / masked regions.
• It can export data into a single or multiple alignment file in format such as Fasta or Clustal.
• It can read annotation data in GFF or GTF format, and extract the corresponding alignment.
• It can perform sliding windows calculations.
• It can reconstruct phylogeny/genealogy along the genome alignment.
• It can compute population genetics statistics, such as site frequency spectrum, number of fixed/polymorphic sites, etc.

This package provides example data for maffilter.

There are three methods to install maffilter-examples 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 maffilter-examples Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install maffilter-examples

Install maffilter-examples Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install maffilter-examples

Install maffilter-examples 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 maffilter-examples using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install maffilter-examples

How To Uninstall maffilter-examples on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the maffilter-examples package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove maffilter-examples

Uninstall maffilter-examples And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove maffilter-examples

Remove maffilter-examples Configurations and Data

To remove maffilter-examples configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge maffilter-examples

Remove maffilter-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge maffilter-examples

Dependencies

maffilter-examples have the following dependencies:

References

• maffilter-examples website

Summary

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