How To Install probcons on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install probcons on Kali Linux. probcons is PROBabilistic CONSistency-based multiple sequence alignment

Introduction

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

What is probcons

probcons is:

Tool for generating multiple alignments of protein sequences. Using a combination of probabilistic modeling and consistency-based alignment techniques, PROBCONS has achieved the highest accuracies of all alignment methods to date. On the BAliBASE benchmark alignment database, alignments produced by PROBCONS show statistically significant improvement over current programs, containing an average of 7% more correctly aligned columns than those of T-Coffee, 11% more correctly aligned columns than those of CLUSTAL W, and 14% more correctly aligned columns than those of DIALIGN.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install probcons

Install probcons Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install probcons

Install probcons 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 probcons using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install probcons

How To Uninstall probcons on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove probcons

Uninstall probcons And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove probcons

Remove probcons Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge probcons

Remove probcons configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge probcons

Dependencies

probcons have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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