How To Install lighter on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is lighter

lighter is:

Lighter is a fast, memory-efficient tool for correcting sequencing errors. Lighter avoids counting k-mers. Instead, it uses a pair of Bloom filters, one holding a sample of the input k-mers and the other holding k-mers likely to be correct. As long as the sampling fraction is adjusted in inverse proportion to the depth of sequencing, Bloom filter size can be held constant while maintaining near-constant accuracy. Lighter is parallelized, uses no secondary storage, and is both faster and more memory-efficient than competing approaches while achieving comparable accuracy.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lighter

Install lighter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lighter

Install lighter 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 lighter using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lighter

How To Uninstall lighter on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lighter

Uninstall lighter And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lighter

Remove lighter Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lighter

Remove lighter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lighter

Dependencies

lighter have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libstdc++6
• zlib1g

References

• lighter website

Summary

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