How To Install dascrubber on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is dascrubber

dascrubber is:

The Dazzler Scrubbing Suite produces a set of edited reads that are guaranteed to

• be continuous stretches of the underlying genome (i.e. no unremoved adapters and not chimers)
• have no very low quality stretches (i.e. the error rate never exceeds some reasonable maximum, 20% or so in the case of Pacbio data). Its secondary goal is to do so with the minimum removal of data and splitting of reads.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install dascrubber

Install dascrubber Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install dascrubber

Install dascrubber 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 dascrubber using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dascrubber

How To Uninstall dascrubber on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove dascrubber

Uninstall dascrubber And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dascrubber

Remove dascrubber Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge dascrubber

Remove dascrubber configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dascrubber

Dependencies

dascrubber have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• dascrubber website

Summary

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