How To Install prime-phylo on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install prime-phylo on Kali Linux.

What is prime-phylo

prime-phylo is:

PrIME (Probabilistic Integrated Models of Evolution) is a package
supporting inference of evolutionary parameters in a Bayesian framework
using Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation. A distinguishing feature of
PrIME is that the species tree is taken into account when analyzing gene
trees.

The input data to PrIME is a multiple sequence alignment in FASTA format
and the output data contains trees in Newick format.

There are three methods to install prime-phylo 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 prime-phylo Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install prime-phylo

Install prime-phylo Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install prime-phylo

Install prime-phylo 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 prime-phylo using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install prime-phylo

How To Uninstall prime-phylo on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the prime-phylo package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove prime-phylo

Uninstall prime-phylo And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove prime-phylo

Remove prime-phylo Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge prime-phylo

Remove prime-phylo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prime-phylo

Dependencies

prime-phylo have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• prime-phylo website

Summary

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