How To Install exonerate on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is exonerate

exonerate is:

Exonerate allows you to align sequences using a many alignment models, using either exhaustive dynamic programming, or a variety of heuristics. Much of the functionality of the Wise dynamic programming suite was reimplemented in C for better efficiency. Exonerate is an intrinsic component of the building of the Ensembl genome databases, providing similarity scores between RNA and DNA sequences and thus determining splice variants and coding sequences in general.

An In-silico PCR Experiment Simulation System (see the ipcress man page) is packaged with exonerate.

This package also comes with a selection of utilities for performing simple manipulations quickly on fasta files beyond 2Gb

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install exonerate

Install exonerate Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install exonerate

Install exonerate 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 exonerate using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install exonerate

How To Uninstall exonerate on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove exonerate

Uninstall exonerate And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove exonerate

Remove exonerate Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge exonerate

Remove exonerate configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge exonerate

Dependencies

exonerate have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libglib2.0-0

References

• exonerate website

Summary

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