How To Install dialign-tx on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install dialign-tx on Kali Linux. dialign-tx is Segment-based multiple sequence alignment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dialign-tx on Kali Linux.

What is dialign-tx

dialign-tx is:

DIALIGN-TX is a command line tool to perform multiple alignment of protein or DNA sequences. It is a complete reimplementation of the segment-base approach including several new improvements and heuristics that significantly enhance the quality of the output alignments compared to DIALIGN 2.2 and DIALIGN-T. For pairwise alignment, DIALIGN-TX uses a fragment-chaining algorithm that favours chains of low-scoring local alignments over isolated high-scoring fragments. For multiple alignment, DIALIGN-TX uses an improved greedy procedure that is less sensitive to spurious local sequence similarities.

There are three methods to install dialign-tx 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 dialign-tx Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install dialign-tx

Install dialign-tx Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install dialign-tx

Install dialign-tx 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 dialign-tx using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dialign-tx

How To Uninstall dialign-tx on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the dialign-tx package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove dialign-tx

Uninstall dialign-tx And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dialign-tx

Remove dialign-tx Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge dialign-tx

Remove dialign-tx configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dialign-tx

Dependencies

dialign-tx have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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