How To Install infernal on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is infernal

infernal is:

Infernal (“INFERence of RNA ALignment”) searches DNA sequence databases for RNA structure and sequence similarities. It provides an implementation of a special variant of profile stochastic context-free grammars called covariance models (CMs). A CM is like a sequence profile, but it scores a combination of sequence consensus and RNA secondary structure consensus, so in many cases, it is more capable of identifying RNA homologs that conserve their secondary structure more than their primary sequence.

The tool is an integral component of the Rfam database.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install infernal

Install infernal Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install infernal

Install infernal 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 infernal using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install infernal

How To Uninstall infernal on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove infernal

Uninstall infernal And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove infernal

Remove infernal Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge infernal

Remove infernal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge infernal

Dependencies

infernal have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• infernal website

Summary

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