How To Install genometester on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is genometester

genometester is:

Toolkit for performing set operations - union, intersection and complement - on k-mer lists.

GenomeTester4 toolkit, which contains a novel tool GListCompare for performing union, intersection and complement (difference) set operations on k-mer lists. It contains examples of how these general operations can be combined to solve a variety of biological analysis tasks.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install genometester

Install genometester Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install genometester

Install genometester 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 genometester using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install genometester

How To Uninstall genometester on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove genometester

Uninstall genometester And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove genometester

Remove genometester Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge genometester

Remove genometester configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge genometester

Dependencies

genometester have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• genometester website

Summary

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