How To Install lambda-align2 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lambda-align2
on Kali Linux.
What is lambda-align2
lambda-align2 is:
Lambda2 is a local biosequence aligner optimized for many query sequences and searches in protein space. It is compatible to the de facto standard tool BLAST, but often outperforms the best currently available alternatives at reproducing BLAST??s results and is the fastest compared with the current state of the art at comparable levels of sensitivity.
This package is for the Lambda (align) v2.x series which has an incompatible command line interface and on disk format from Lambda (align) v1.x.
There are three methods to install lambda-align2
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 lambda-align2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lambda-align2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lambda-align2
Install lambda-align2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lambda-align2
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lambda-align2
Install lambda-align2 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 lambda-align2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lambda-align2
How To Uninstall lambda-align2 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the lambda-align2
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lambda-align2
Uninstall lambda-align2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lambda-align2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lambda-align2
Remove lambda-align2 Configurations and Data
To remove lambda-align2
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lambda-align2
Remove lambda-align2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lambda-align2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lambda-align2
Dependencies
lambda-align2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lambda-align2
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.