How To Install bowtie on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is bowtie

bowtie is:

This package addresses the problem to interpret the results from the latest (2010) DNA sequencing technologies. Those will yield fairly short stretches and those cannot be interpreted directly. It is the challenge for tools like Bowtie to give a chromosomal location to the short stretches of DNA sequenced per run.

Bowtie aligns short DNA sequences (reads) to the human genome at a rate of over 25 million 35-bp reads per hour. Bowtie indexes the genome with a Burrows-Wheeler index to keep its memory footprint small: typically about 2.2 GB for the human genome (2.9 GB for paired-end).

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bowtie

Install bowtie Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bowtie

Install bowtie 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 bowtie using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bowtie

How To Uninstall bowtie on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove bowtie

Uninstall bowtie And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bowtie

Remove bowtie Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge bowtie

Remove bowtie configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bowtie

Dependencies

bowtie have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libstdc++6
• zlib1g

References

• bowtie website

Summary

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