How To Install libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl on Kali Linux.

What is libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl

libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl is:

Provides a single place to setup some common methods for querying NCBI web databases. Bio::DB::NCBIHelper just centralizes the methods for constructing a URL for querying NCBI GenBank and NCBI GenPept and the common HTML stripping done in postprocess_data().

The base NCBI query URL used is: https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi

There are three methods to install libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl 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 libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl

Install libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl

Install libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl 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 libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl

How To Uninstall libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl

Uninstall libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl

Remove libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl

Remove libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl

Dependencies

libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl website

Summary

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