How To Install libball1.5-data on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libball1.5-data on Kali Linux.

What is libball1.5-data

libball1.5-data is:

BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) is an application framework in C++ that has been specifically designed for rapid software development in Molecular Modeling and Computational Molecular Biology. It provides an extensive set of data structures as well as classes for Molecular Mechanics, advanced solvation methods, comparison and analysis of protein structures, file import/export, and visualization. BALL is currently being developed in the groups of Oliver Kohlbacher (University of Tuebingen, Germany), Andreas Hildebrandt (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany), and Hans-Peter Lenhof (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany).

This package contains the data files (force field parameters, fragment data bases, etc) necessary for using BALL.

There are three methods to install libball1.5-data 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 libball1.5-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libball1.5-data using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libball1.5-data

Install libball1.5-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libball1.5-data using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libball1.5-data

Install libball1.5-data 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 libball1.5-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libball1.5-data

How To Uninstall libball1.5-data on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libball1.5-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libball1.5-data

Uninstall libball1.5-data And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libball1.5-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libball1.5-data

Remove libball1.5-data Configurations and Data

To remove libball1.5-data configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libball1.5-data

Remove libball1.5-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libball1.5-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libball1.5-data

Dependencies

libball1.5-data have the following dependencies:

References

• libball1.5-data website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libball1.5-data package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.