How To Install boxshade on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install boxshade on Kali Linux.

What is boxshade

boxshade is:

Boxshade is a program for creating good looking printouts from multiple-aligned protein or DNA sequences. The program does not perform the alignment by itself and requires as input a file that was created by a multiple alignment program or manually edited with respective tools.

Boxshade reads multiple-aligned sequences from either PILEUP-MSF, CLUSTAL-ALN, MALIGNED-data and ESEE-save files (limited to a maximum of 150 sequences with up to 10000 elements each). Various kinds of shading can be applied to identical/similar residues. Output is written to screen or to a file in the following formats: ANSI/VT100, PS/EPS, RTF, HPGL, ReGIS, LJ250-printer, ASCII, xFIG, PICT, HTML

There are three methods to install boxshade 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 boxshade Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install boxshade

Install boxshade Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install boxshade using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install boxshade

Install boxshade 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 boxshade using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install boxshade

How To Uninstall boxshade on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the boxshade package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove boxshade

Uninstall boxshade And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove boxshade

Remove boxshade Configurations and Data

To remove boxshade configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge boxshade

Remove boxshade configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge boxshade

Dependencies

boxshade have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• boxshade website

Summary

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