How To Install freebayes on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is freebayes

freebayes is:

FreeBayes is a Bayesian genetic variant detector designed to find small polymorphisms, specifically SNPs (single-nucleotide polymorphisms), indels (insertions and deletions), MNPs (multi-nucleotide polymorphisms), and complex events (composite insertion and substitution events) smaller than the length of a short-read sequencing alignment.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install freebayes

Install freebayes Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install freebayes

Install freebayes 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 freebayes using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install freebayes

How To Uninstall freebayes on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove freebayes

Uninstall freebayes And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove freebayes

Remove freebayes Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge freebayes

Remove freebayes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freebayes

Dependencies

freebayes have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libseqlib2
• libstdc++6
• libtabixpp0
• libvcflib1
• zlib1g

References

• freebayes website

Summary

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