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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install rasmol using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rasmolInstall rasmol Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install rasmol using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rasmolInstall 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install rasmol using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rasmolHow To Uninstall rasmol on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the rasmol package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rasmolUninstall 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 rasmolRemove rasmol Configurations and Data
To remove rasmol configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rasmolRemove 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 rasmolDependencies
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
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rasmol package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
