How To Install bamtools on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bamtools on Kali Linux.
What is bamtools
bamtools is:
BamTools facilitates research analysis and data management using BAM files. It copes with the enormous amount of data produced by current sequencing technologies that is typically stored in compressed, binary formats that are not easily handled by the text-based parsers commonly used in bioinformatics research.
BamTools provides both a C++ API for BAM file support as well as a command-line toolkit.
This is the bamtools command-line toolkit.
Available bamtools commands: convert Converts between BAM and a number of other formats count Prints number of alignments in BAM file(s) coverage Prints coverage statistics from the input BAM file filter Filters BAM file(s) by user-specified criteria header Prints BAM header information index Generates index for BAM file merge Merge multiple BAM files into single file random Select random alignments from existing BAM file(s), intended more as a testing tool. resolve Resolves paired-end reads (marking the IsProperPair flag as needed) revert Removes duplicate marks and restores original base qualities sort Sorts the BAM file according to some criteria split Splits a BAM file on user-specified property, creating a new BAM output file for each value found stats Prints some basic statistics from input BAM file(s)
There are three methods to install bamtools 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 bamtools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install bamtools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bamtoolsInstall bamtools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install bamtools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bamtoolsInstall bamtools 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install bamtools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bamtoolsHow To Uninstall bamtools on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the bamtools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bamtoolsUninstall bamtools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bamtools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bamtoolsRemove bamtools Configurations and Data
To remove bamtools configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bamtoolsRemove bamtools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bamtools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bamtoolsDependencies
bamtools have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bamtools package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.