How To Install kmerresistance on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is kmerresistance

kmerresistance is:

KmerResistance correlates mapped genes with the predicted species of WGS samples, where this allows for identification of genes in samples which have been poorly sequenced or high accuracy predictions for samples with contamination. KmerResistance has one dependency, namely KMA to perform the mapping, which is also freely available.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kmerresistance

Install kmerresistance Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kmerresistance

Install kmerresistance 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 kmerresistance using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kmerresistance

How To Uninstall kmerresistance on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove kmerresistance

Uninstall kmerresistance And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kmerresistance

Remove kmerresistance Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kmerresistance

Remove kmerresistance configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kmerresistance

Dependencies

kmerresistance have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• kma

References

• kmerresistance website

Summary

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