How To Install bedops on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install bedops on Kali Linux. bedops is high-performance genomic feature operations

Introduction

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

What is bedops

bedops is:

BEDOPS is a suite of tools to address common questions raised in genomic studies, mostly with regard to overlap and proximity relationships between data sets. It aims to be scalable and flexible, facilitating the efficient and accurate analysis and management of large-scale genomic data.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bedops

Install bedops Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bedops

Install bedops 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 bedops using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bedops

How To Uninstall bedops on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove bedops

Uninstall bedops And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bedops

Remove bedops Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge bedops

Remove bedops configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bedops

Dependencies

bedops have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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