How To Install phylip-doc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install phylip-doc on Kali Linux. phylip-doc is package of programs for inferring phylogenies (documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install phylip-doc on Kali Linux.

What is phylip-doc

phylip-doc is:

The PHYLogeny Inference Package is a package of programs for inferring phylogenies (evolutionary trees) from sequences. Methods that are available in the package include parsimony, distance matrix, and likelihood methods, including bootstrapping and consensus trees. Data types that can be handled include molecular sequences, gene frequencies, restriction sites, distance matrices, and 0/1 discrete characters.

This package contains the HTML documentation

There are three methods to install phylip-doc 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 phylip-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install phylip-doc

Install phylip-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install phylip-doc

Install phylip-doc 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 phylip-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phylip-doc

How To Uninstall phylip-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the phylip-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove phylip-doc

Uninstall phylip-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phylip-doc

Remove phylip-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge phylip-doc

Remove phylip-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phylip-doc

Dependencies

phylip-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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