How To Install cif-tools on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cif-tools on Kali Linux.
What is cif-tools
cif-tools is:
This package contains a suite of tools for the manipulation of mmCIF files.
The structure of macro molecules is nowadays recorded in mmCIF files. Until recently however the ancient PDB file format was used by many programs but that format has since long been deprecated.
This package provides two tools, pdb2cif and cif2pdb, that can convert files from one format into the other, provided that data fits of course.
Other tools are cif-validate, cif-grep, cif-diff, cif-merge and mmCQL. The latter can be used to manipulate an mmCIF file as if it were a SQL like database using SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT and DELETE commands.
This package depends on libcifpp.
There are three methods to install cif-tools 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 cif-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cif-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cif-toolsInstall cif-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cif-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cif-toolsInstall cif-tools 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 cif-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cif-toolsHow To Uninstall cif-tools on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cif-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cif-toolsUninstall cif-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cif-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cif-toolsRemove cif-tools Configurations and Data
To remove cif-tools configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cif-toolsRemove cif-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cif-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cif-toolsDependencies
cif-tools have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cif-tools package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
