Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install arb-common on Kali Linux.
What is arb-common
arb-common is:
ARB is a graphical suite of tools for sequence database handling and data
analysis. A central database of processed (aligned) sequences and any
type of additional data linked to the sequence entries is structured
according to phylogeny or other user-defined criteria.
The ARB project (from the Latin “arbor”, a tree) is a joint initiative of
the Lehrstuhl fuer Mikrobiologie http://www.mikro.biologie.tu-muenchen.de/
and the Lehrstuhl fuer Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation
http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/ of the Technical University
of Munich.
This package provides the architecture independent scripts of ARB.
There are three methods to install arb-common 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 arb-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install arb-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install arb-common
Install arb-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install arb-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install arb-commonInstall arb-common 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 arb-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install arb-commonHow To Uninstall arb-common on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the arb-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove arb-commonUninstall arb-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall arb-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove arb-commonRemove arb-common Configurations and Data
To remove arb-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge arb-commonRemove arb-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove arb-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge arb-commonDependencies
arb-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install arb-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
