How To Install emboss-data on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emboss-data on Kali Linux.

What is emboss-data

emboss-data is:

EMBOSS is a free Open Source software analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology (e.g. EMBnet) user community. The software automatically copes with data in a variety of formats and even allows transparent retrieval of sequence data from the web. Also, as extensive libraries are provided with the package, it is a platform to allow other scientists to develop and release software in true open source spirit. EMBOSS also integrates a range of currently available packages and tools for sequence analysis into a seamless whole. EMBOSS breaks the historical trend towards commercial software packages.

This package includes data files needed by EMBOSS, the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite.

There are three methods to install emboss-data 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 emboss-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install emboss-data

Install emboss-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install emboss-data

Install emboss-data 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 emboss-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install emboss-data

How To Uninstall emboss-data on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the emboss-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove emboss-data

Uninstall emboss-data And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove emboss-data

Remove emboss-data Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge emboss-data

Remove emboss-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge emboss-data

Dependencies

emboss-data have the following dependencies:

References

• emboss-data website

Summary

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