How To Install rasmol on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is rasmol

rasmol is:

RasMol is a molecular graphics program intended for the visualisation of proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules. The program is aimed at display, teaching and generation of publication quality images.

The program reads in a molecule coordinate file and interactively displays the molecule on the screen in a variety of colour schemes and molecule representations. Currently available representations include depth-cued wireframes, ‘Dreiding’ sticks, spacefilling (CPK) spheres, ball and stick, solid and strand biomolecular ribbons, atom labels and dot surfaces.

Supported input file formats include Protein Data Bank (PDB), Tripos Associates’ Alchemy and Sybyl Mol2 formats, Molecular Design Limited’s (MDL) Mol file format, Minnesota Supercomputer Center’s (MSC) XYZ (XMol) format, CHARMm format, CIF format and mmCIF format files.

This package installs two versions of RasMol, rasmol-gtk has a modern GTK-based user interface and rasmol-classic is the version with the old Xlib GUI.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rasmol

Install rasmol Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rasmol

Install rasmol 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 rasmol using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rasmol

How To Uninstall rasmol on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove rasmol

Uninstall rasmol And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rasmol

Remove rasmol Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge rasmol

Remove rasmol configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rasmol

Dependencies

rasmol have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libcairo2
• libcbf1
• libcneartree7
• libcqrlib2
• libcvector2
• libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk-3-0
• libpango-1.0-0
• libvte-2.91-0
• libx11-6
• libxext6

References

• rasmol website

Summary

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