How To Install circos-tools on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install circos-tools on Kali Linux.

What is circos-tools

circos-tools is:

Circos visualizes data in a circular layout ?? ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions, and creating highly informative publication-quality graphics.

This package provides a set of tools to help process your data: binlinks, bundlelinks, categoryviewer, colorinterpolate, filterlinks, maketutorialimages, orderchr, randomlinks, resample, and tableviewer.

There are three methods to install circos-tools 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 circos-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install circos-tools

Install circos-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install circos-tools

Install circos-tools 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 circos-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install circos-tools

How To Uninstall circos-tools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the circos-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove circos-tools

Uninstall circos-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove circos-tools

Remove circos-tools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge circos-tools

Remove circos-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge circos-tools

Dependencies

circos-tools have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• circos-tools website

Summary

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