How To Install hmmer-examples on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hmmer-examples on Kali Linux.

What is hmmer-examples

hmmer-examples is:

HMMER is an implementation of profile hidden Markov model methods for sensitive searches of biological sequence databases using multiple sequence alignments as queries.

Given a multiple sequence alignment as input, HMMER builds a statistical model called a “hidden Markov model” which can then be used as a query into a sequence database to find (and/or align) additional homologues of the sequence family.

This package contains example files to test the hmmer package.

There are three methods to install hmmer-examples 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 hmmer-examples Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install hmmer-examples

Install hmmer-examples Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install hmmer-examples

Install hmmer-examples 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 hmmer-examples using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hmmer-examples

How To Uninstall hmmer-examples on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the hmmer-examples package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove hmmer-examples

Uninstall hmmer-examples And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hmmer-examples

Remove hmmer-examples Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge hmmer-examples

Remove hmmer-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hmmer-examples

Dependencies

hmmer-examples have the following dependencies:

• libperl4-corelibs-perl

References

• hmmer-examples website

Summary

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