How To Install muscle on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install muscle on Kali Linux. muscle is Multiple alignment program of protein sequences

Introduction

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

What is muscle

muscle is:

MUSCLE is a multiple alignment program for protein sequences. MUSCLE stands for multiple sequence comparison by log-expectation. In the authors tests, MUSCLE achieved the highest scores of all tested programs on several alignment accuracy benchmarks, and is also one of the fastest programs out there.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install muscle

Install muscle Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install muscle

Install muscle 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 muscle using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install muscle

How To Uninstall muscle on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove muscle

Uninstall muscle And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove muscle

Remove muscle Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge muscle

Remove muscle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge muscle

Dependencies

muscle have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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