How To Install biosyntax-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install biosyntax-common on Kali Linux.

What is biosyntax-common

biosyntax-common is:

Syntax highlighting for computational biology to bring you intuitively close to your data. BioSyntax supports .sam, .flagstat, .vcf, .fasta, .fastq, .faidx , .clustal, .pdb, .gtf, .bed files & more.

This package provides common files of bioSyntax.

There are three methods to install biosyntax-common 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 biosyntax-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install biosyntax-common

Install biosyntax-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install biosyntax-common

Install biosyntax-common 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 biosyntax-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install biosyntax-common

How To Uninstall biosyntax-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the biosyntax-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove biosyntax-common

Uninstall biosyntax-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove biosyntax-common

Remove biosyntax-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge biosyntax-common

Remove biosyntax-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge biosyntax-common

Dependencies

biosyntax-common have the following dependencies:

References

• biosyntax-common website

Summary

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