How To Install leaff on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install leaff on Kali Linux. leaff is biological sequence library utilities and applications

Introduction

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

What is leaff

leaff is:

LEAFF (Let’s Extract Anything From Fasta) is a utility program for working with multi-fasta files. In addition to providing random access to the base level, it includes several analysis functions.

This package is part of the Kmer suite.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install leaff

Install leaff Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install leaff

Install leaff 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 leaff using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install leaff

How To Uninstall leaff on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove leaff

Uninstall leaff And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove leaff

Remove leaff Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge leaff

Remove leaff configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge leaff

Dependencies

leaff have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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