How To Install fsm-lite on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install fsm-lite on Kali Linux. fsm-lite is frequency-based string mining (lite)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fsm-lite on Kali Linux.

What is fsm-lite

fsm-lite is:

A singe-core implementation of frequency-based substring mining used in bioinformatics to extract substrings that discriminate two (or more) datasets inside high-throughput sequencing data.

There are three methods to install fsm-lite 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 fsm-lite Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fsm-lite

Install fsm-lite Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fsm-lite

Install fsm-lite 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 fsm-lite using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fsm-lite

How To Uninstall fsm-lite on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the fsm-lite package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fsm-lite

Uninstall fsm-lite And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fsm-lite

Remove fsm-lite Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fsm-lite

Remove fsm-lite configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fsm-lite

Dependencies

fsm-lite have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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