How To Install snap on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install snap
on Kali Linux.
What is snap
snap is:
SNAP is a general purpose gene finding program suitable for both eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes. SNAP is an acroynm for Semi-HMM-based Nucleic Acid Parser.
There are three methods to install snap
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 snap Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install snap
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install snap
Install snap Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install snap
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install snap
Install snap 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 snap
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install snap
How To Uninstall snap on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the snap
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove snap
Uninstall snap And Its Dependencies
To uninstall snap
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove snap
Remove snap Configurations and Data
To remove snap
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge snap
Remove snap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove snap
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge snap
Dependencies
snap have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install snap
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.