How To Install seq-gen on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install seq-gen on Kali Linux.

What is seq-gen

seq-gen is:

Seq-Gen is a program that will simulate the evolution of nucleotide or amino acid sequences along a phylogeny, using common models of the substitution process. A range of models of molecular evolution are implemented including the general reversible model. State frequencies and other parameters of the model may be given and site-specific rate heterogeneity may also be incorporated in a number of ways. Any number of trees may be read in and the program will produce any number of data sets for each tree. Thus large sets of replicate simulations can be easily created. It has been designed to be a general purpose simulator that incorporates most of the commonly used (and computationally tractable) models of molecular sequence evolution.

There are three methods to install seq-gen 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 seq-gen Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install seq-gen

Install seq-gen Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install seq-gen

Install seq-gen 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 seq-gen using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install seq-gen

How To Uninstall seq-gen on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the seq-gen package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove seq-gen

Uninstall seq-gen And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove seq-gen

Remove seq-gen Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge seq-gen

Remove seq-gen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge seq-gen

Dependencies

seq-gen have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• seq-gen website

Summary

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