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 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 ways 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 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install circos-tools using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.