How To Install lastz-examples on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is lastz-examples

lastz-examples is:

LASTZ is a drop-in replacement for BLASTZ, and is backward compatible with BLASTZ??s command-line syntax. That is, it supports all of BLASTZ??s options but also has additional ones, and may produce slightly different alignment results.

This package contains example data and test scripts.

There are three methods to install lastz-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 lastz-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 lastz-examples using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lastz-examples

Install lastz-examples Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lastz-examples

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

sudo aptitude -y install lastz-examples

How To Uninstall lastz-examples on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lastz-examples

Uninstall lastz-examples And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lastz-examples

Remove lastz-examples Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lastz-examples

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

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

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

Dependencies

lastz-examples have the following dependencies:

References

• lastz-examples website

Summary

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