How To Install assembly-stats on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install assembly-stats on Kali Linux.

What is assembly-stats

assembly-stats is:

Get statistics from a list of files.

Detection of FASTA or FASTQ format of each file is automatic from the file contents, so file names and extensions are irrelevant.

The default output format is human readable. You can change the output format and ignore sequences shorter than a given length.

There are three methods to install assembly-stats 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 assembly-stats Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install assembly-stats

Install assembly-stats Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install assembly-stats

Install assembly-stats 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 assembly-stats using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install assembly-stats

How To Uninstall assembly-stats on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the assembly-stats package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove assembly-stats

Uninstall assembly-stats And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove assembly-stats

Remove assembly-stats Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge assembly-stats

Remove assembly-stats configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge assembly-stats

Dependencies

assembly-stats have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libstdc++6

References

• assembly-stats website

Summary

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