How To Install plast on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is plast

plast is:

PLAST is a fast, accurate and NGS scalable bank-to-bank sequence similarity search tool providing significant accelerations of seeds- based heuristic comparison methods, such as the Blast suite of algorithms.

Relying on unique software architecture, PLAST takes full advantage of recent multi-core personal computers without requiring any additional hardware devices.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install plast

Install plast Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install plast

Install plast 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 plast using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plast

How To Uninstall plast on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove plast

Uninstall plast And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plast

Remove plast Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge plast

Remove plast configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plast

Dependencies

plast have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libpcre3
• libstdc++6

References

• plast website

Summary

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