How To Install trnascan-se on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install trnascan-se on Kali Linux.

What is trnascan-se

trnascan-se is:

tRNAscan-SE identifies 99-100% of transfer RNA genes in DNA sequence while giving less than one false positive per 15 gigabases. Two previously described tRNA detection programs are used as fast, first-pass prefilters to identify candidate tRNAs, which are then analyzed by a highly selective tRNA covariance model. This work represents a practical application of RNA covariance models, which are general, probabilistic secondary structure profiles based on stochastic context-free grammars. tRNAscan-SE searches at ~ 30 000 bp/s. Additional extensions to tRNAscan-SE detect unusual tRNA homologues such as selenocysteine tRNAs, tRNA-derived repetitive elements and tRNA pseudogenes.

There are three methods to install trnascan-se 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 trnascan-se Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install trnascan-se

Install trnascan-se Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install trnascan-se

Install trnascan-se 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 trnascan-se using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install trnascan-se

How To Uninstall trnascan-se on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the trnascan-se package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove trnascan-se

Uninstall trnascan-se And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove trnascan-se

Remove trnascan-se Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge trnascan-se

Remove trnascan-se configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge trnascan-se

Dependencies

trnascan-se have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• perl

References

• trnascan-se website

Summary

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