How To Install metabat on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install metabat on Kali Linux. metabat is robust statistical framework for reconstructing genomes from metagenomic data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install metabat on Kali Linux.

What is metabat

metabat is:

MetaBAT integrates empirical probabilistic distances of genome abundance and tetranucleotide frequency for accurate metagenome binning. MetaBAT outperforms alternative methods in accuracy and computational efficiency on both synthetic and real metagenome datasets. It automatically forms hundreds of high quality genome bins on a very large assembly consisting millions of contigs in a matter of hours on a single node.

There are three methods to install metabat 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 metabat Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install metabat

Install metabat Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install metabat using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install metabat

Install metabat 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 metabat using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install metabat

How To Uninstall metabat on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the metabat package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove metabat

Uninstall metabat And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove metabat

Remove metabat Configurations and Data

To remove metabat configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge metabat

Remove metabat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge metabat

Dependencies

metabat have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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