How To Install libjellyfish-perl on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjellyfish-perl on Kali Linux. libjellyfish-perl is count k-mers in DNA sequences (Perl bindings of jellyfish)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjellyfish-perl on Kali Linux.

What is libjellyfish-perl

libjellyfish-perl is:

JELLYFISH is a tool for fast, memory-efficient counting of k-mers in DNA. A k-mer is a substring of length k, and counting the occurrences of all such substrings is a central step in many analyses of DNA sequence. JELLYFISH can count k-mers using an order of magnitude less memory and an order of magnitude faster than other k-mer counting packages by using an efficient encoding of a hash table and by exploiting the “compare-and-swap” CPU instruction to increase parallelism.

JELLYFISH is a command-line program that reads FASTA and multi-FASTA files containing DNA sequences. It outputs its k-mer counts in an binary format, which can be translated into a human-readable text format using the “jellyfish dump” command.

This package contains the Perl bindings of jellyfish.

There are three methods to install libjellyfish-perl 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 libjellyfish-perl Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libjellyfish-perl

Install libjellyfish-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libjellyfish-perl

Install libjellyfish-perl 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 libjellyfish-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libjellyfish-perl

How To Uninstall libjellyfish-perl on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libjellyfish-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libjellyfish-perl

Uninstall libjellyfish-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjellyfish-perl

Remove libjellyfish-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libjellyfish-perl configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libjellyfish-perl

Remove libjellyfish-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjellyfish-perl

Dependencies

libjellyfish-perl have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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