How To Install macsyfinder on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install macsyfinder on Kali Linux. macsyfinder is detection of macromolecular systems in protein datasets

Introduction

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

What is macsyfinder

macsyfinder is:

MacSyFinder is a program to model and detect macromolecular systems, genetic pathways… in protein datasets. In prokaryotes, these systems have often evolutionarily conserved properties: they are made of conserved components, and are encoded in compact loci (conserved genetic architecture). The user models these systems with MacSyFinder to reflect these conserved features, and to allow their efficient detection

This package presents the Open Source Java API to biological databases and a series of mostly sequence-based algorithms.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install macsyfinder

Install macsyfinder Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install macsyfinder

Install macsyfinder 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 macsyfinder using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install macsyfinder

How To Uninstall macsyfinder on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove macsyfinder

Uninstall macsyfinder And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove macsyfinder

Remove macsyfinder Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge macsyfinder

Remove macsyfinder configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge macsyfinder

Dependencies

macsyfinder have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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