How To Install seaview on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install seaview on Kali Linux. seaview is Multiplatform interface for sequence alignment and phylogeny

Introduction

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

What is seaview

seaview is:

SeaView is a viewer and editor of multiple sequence alignments, i.e. DNA or protein sequences are positioned each in their own separate line, such that the nucleotide/amino acid at a particular position (column) is presumed to have the same biochemical property.

SeaView reads and writes various file formats (NEXUS, MSF, CLUSTAL, FASTA, PHYLIP, MASE, Newick) of DNA and protein sequences and of phylogenetic trees. Alignments can be manually edited. It drives the programs Muscle or Clustal Omega for multiple sequence alignment, and also allows one to use any external alignment algorithm able to read and write FASTA-formatted files. It computes phylogenetic trees by parsimony using PHYLIP’s dnapars/protpars algorithm, by distance with NJ or BioNJ algorithms on a variety of evolutionary distances, or by maximum likelihood using the program PhyML 3.0.

SeaView draws phylogenetic trees on screen or PostScript files, and allows one to download sequences from EMBL/GenBank/UniProt using the Internet.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install seaview

Install seaview Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install seaview

Install seaview 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 seaview using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install seaview

How To Uninstall seaview on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove seaview

Uninstall seaview And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove seaview

Remove seaview Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge seaview

Remove seaview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge seaview

Dependencies

seaview have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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