How To Install r-bioc-rsamtools on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-bioc-rsamtools on Kali Linux. r-bioc-rsamtools is GNU R binary alignment (BAM), variant call (BCF), or tabix file import

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-bioc-rsamtools on Kali Linux.

What is r-bioc-rsamtools

r-bioc-rsamtools is:

This package provides an interface to the ‘samtools’, ‘bcftools’, and ’tabix’ utilities for manipulating SAM (Sequence Alignment / Map), binary variant call (BCF) and compressed indexed tab-delimited (tabix) files.

There are three methods to install r-bioc-rsamtools 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 r-bioc-rsamtools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install r-bioc-rsamtools

Install r-bioc-rsamtools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install r-bioc-rsamtools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install r-bioc-rsamtools

Install r-bioc-rsamtools 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 r-bioc-rsamtools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install r-bioc-rsamtools

How To Uninstall r-bioc-rsamtools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the r-bioc-rsamtools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove r-bioc-rsamtools

Uninstall r-bioc-rsamtools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-bioc-rsamtools

Remove r-bioc-rsamtools Configurations and Data

To remove r-bioc-rsamtools configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge r-bioc-rsamtools

Remove r-bioc-rsamtools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove r-bioc-rsamtools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-bioc-rsamtools

Dependencies

r-bioc-rsamtools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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