How To Install libpll-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpll-dev on Kali Linux.
What is libpll-dev
libpll-dev is:
PLL is a highly optimized, parallelized software library to ease the development of new software tools dealing with phylogenetic inference.
Among the functions included in PLL are parsing multiple sequence alignments (MSA) from PHYLIP and FASTA files, reading Newick trees, performing topological moves such as SPR and NNI, model optimization, likelihood evaluation and partitioned analysis by assigning different substitution models to each partition of the MSA. PLL fully implements the GTR nucleotide substitution model for DNA data and a number of models for aminoacid data.
This package contains the static library and the header file.
There are three methods to install libpll-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 libpll-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libpll-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpll-devInstall libpll-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libpll-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpll-devInstall libpll-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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libpll-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpll-devHow To Uninstall libpll-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libpll-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpll-devUninstall libpll-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpll-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpll-devRemove libpll-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libpll-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpll-devRemove libpll-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpll-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpll-devDependencies
libpll-dev have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpll-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
