How To Install gbrowse on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gbrowse
on Kali Linux.
What is gbrowse
gbrowse is:
Generic Genome Browser is a simple but highly configurable web-based genome browser. It is a component of the Generic Model Organism Systems Database project (GMOD). Some of its features:
- Simultaneous bird’s eye and detailed views of the genome;
- Scroll, zoom, center;
- Attach arbitrary URLs to any annotation;
- Order and appearance of tracks are customizable by administrator and end-user;
- Search by annotation ID, name, or comment;
- Supports third party annotation using GFF formats;
- Settings persist across sessions;
- DNA and GFF dumps;
- Connectivity to different databases, including BioSQL and Chado;
- Multi-language support;
- Third-party feature loading;
- Customizable plug-in architecture (e.g. run BLAST, dump & import many formats, find oligonucleotides, design primers, create restriction maps, edit features).
There are three methods to install gbrowse
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 gbrowse Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install gbrowse
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install gbrowse Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install gbrowse
using apt
by running the following command:
Install gbrowse 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.
After updating apt database, We can install gbrowse
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall gbrowse on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the gbrowse
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall gbrowse And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gbrowse
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove gbrowse Configurations and Data
To remove gbrowse
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove gbrowse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gbrowse
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
gbrowse have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gbrowse
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.