How To Install libhtscodecs2 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhtscodecs2 on Kali Linux.

What is libhtscodecs2

libhtscodecs2 is:

This library implements the custom CRAM codecs used for “EXTERNAL” block types. These consist of two variants of the rANS codec (8-bit and 16-bit renormalisation, with run-length encoding and bit-packing also supported in the latter), a dynamic arithmetic coder, and custom codecs for name/ID compression and quality score compression derived from fqzcomp.

They come with small command line test tools to act as both compression exploration programs and as part of the test harness.

There are three methods to install libhtscodecs2 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 libhtscodecs2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libhtscodecs2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libhtscodecs2

Install libhtscodecs2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libhtscodecs2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libhtscodecs2

Install libhtscodecs2 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 libhtscodecs2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libhtscodecs2

How To Uninstall libhtscodecs2 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libhtscodecs2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libhtscodecs2

Uninstall libhtscodecs2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libhtscodecs2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhtscodecs2

Remove libhtscodecs2 Configurations and Data

To remove libhtscodecs2 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libhtscodecs2

Remove libhtscodecs2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libhtscodecs2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhtscodecs2

Dependencies

libhtscodecs2 have the following dependencies:

• libbz2-1.0
• libc6

References

• libhtscodecs2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhtscodecs2 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.