How To Install circlator on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install circlator on Kali Linux. circlator is circularize genome assemblies

Introduction

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

What is circlator

circlator is:

Circlator is a tool to automate assembly circularization for bacterial and small eukaryotic genomes and produce accurate linear representations of circular sequences.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install circlator

Install circlator Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install circlator

Install circlator 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 circlator using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install circlator

How To Uninstall circlator on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove circlator

Uninstall circlator And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove circlator

Remove circlator Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge circlator

Remove circlator configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge circlator

Dependencies

circlator have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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