How To Install libbiococoa-dev on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbiococoa-dev on Kali Linux. libbiococoa-dev is Bioinformatics framework for GNUstep and Cocoa (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbiococoa-dev on Kali Linux.

What is libbiococoa-dev

libbiococoa-dev is:

BioCocoa is an open source Cocoa framework for bioinformatics. It intends to provide Cocoa programmers with a full suite of tools for handling and manipulating biological sequences. Cocoa is a great framework for rapid application development and it is therefore often used to create innovative bioscientific apps. To speed up development even more, BioCocoa wants to offer reusable Cocoa classes that are specific for molecular biology and biofinformatics. At this time, BioCocoa offers model classes for biological sequences, controller classes for alignment, sequence manipulation and I/O, interfacing with ENTREZ and view classes that let you easily display and work with sequences in your own applications.

This package contains the development files, documentation and examples for developing GNUstep applications using the BioCocoa framework.

There are three methods to install libbiococoa-dev 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 libbiococoa-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libbiococoa-dev

Install libbiococoa-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libbiococoa-dev

Install libbiococoa-dev 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 libbiococoa-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libbiococoa-dev

How To Uninstall libbiococoa-dev on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libbiococoa-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libbiococoa-dev

Uninstall libbiococoa-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbiococoa-dev

Remove libbiococoa-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libbiococoa-dev

Remove libbiococoa-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbiococoa-dev

Dependencies

libbiococoa-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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