How To Install comet-ms on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install comet-ms on Kali Linux. comet-ms is Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) search engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install comet-ms on Kali Linux.

What is comet-ms

comet-ms is:

Comet is an open source tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) sequence database search engine. It identifies peptides by searching MS/MS spectra against sequences present in protein sequence databases.

This package ships a binary that does MS/MS database searches. Supported input formats are mzXML, mzML, and ms2 files. Supported output formats are .out, SQT, and pepXML.

There are three methods to install comet-ms 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 comet-ms Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install comet-ms

Install comet-ms Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install comet-ms

Install comet-ms 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 comet-ms using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install comet-ms

How To Uninstall comet-ms on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the comet-ms package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove comet-ms

Uninstall comet-ms And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove comet-ms

Remove comet-ms Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge comet-ms

Remove comet-ms configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge comet-ms

Dependencies

comet-ms have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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