How To Install rdp-alignment on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install rdp-alignment on Kali Linux. rdp-alignment is Ribosomal Database Project (RDP) alignment tools package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rdp-alignment on Kali Linux.

What is rdp-alignment

rdp-alignment is:

The Alignment tools package contains commands to do defined community analysis, pairwise alignment and hidden markov model (HMMER3 models, no training).

The package also contains the AlignmentTools Java library which is used by other RDP tools.

There are three methods to install rdp-alignment 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 rdp-alignment Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rdp-alignment

Install rdp-alignment Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rdp-alignment

Install rdp-alignment 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 rdp-alignment using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rdp-alignment

How To Uninstall rdp-alignment on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the rdp-alignment package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rdp-alignment

Uninstall rdp-alignment And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rdp-alignment

Remove rdp-alignment Configurations and Data

To remove rdp-alignment configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge rdp-alignment

Remove rdp-alignment configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rdp-alignment

Dependencies

rdp-alignment have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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