How To Install dialign on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is dialign

dialign is:

DIALIGN2 is a command line tool to perform multiple alignment of protein or DNA sequences. It constructs alignments from gapfree pairs of similar segments of the sequences. This scoring scheme for alignments is the basic difference between DIALIGN and other global or local alignment methods. Note that DIALIGN does not employ any kind of gap penalty.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install dialign

Install dialign Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install dialign

Install dialign 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 dialign using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dialign

How To Uninstall dialign on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove dialign

Uninstall dialign And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dialign

Remove dialign Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge dialign

Remove dialign configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dialign

Dependencies

dialign have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• dialign website

Summary

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