How To Install gasic on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is gasic

gasic is:

One goal of sequencing based metagenomic analysis is the quantitative taxonomic assessment of microbial community compositions. However, the majority of approaches either quantify at low resolution (e.g. at phylum level) or have severe problems discerning highly similar species. Yet, accurate quantification on species level is desirable in applications such as metagenomic diagnostics or community comparison. GASiC is a method to correct read alignment results for the ambiguities imposed by similarities of genomes. It has superior performance over existing methods.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gasic

Install gasic Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gasic

Install gasic 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 gasic using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gasic

How To Uninstall gasic on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gasic

Uninstall gasic And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gasic

Remove gasic Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gasic

Remove gasic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gasic

Dependencies

gasic have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• gasic website

Summary

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