How To Install meryl on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is meryl

meryl is:

meryl computes the kmer content of genomic sequences. Kmer content is represented as a list of kmers and the number of times each occurs in the input sequences. The kmer can be restricted to only the forward kmer, only the reverse kmer, or the canonical kmer (lexicographically smaller of the forward and reverse kmer at each location). Meryl can report the histogram of counts, the list of kmers and their counts, or can perform mathematical and set operations on the processed data files.

This package is part of the Kmer suite.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install meryl

Install meryl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install meryl

Install meryl 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 meryl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install meryl

How To Uninstall meryl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove meryl

Uninstall meryl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove meryl

Remove meryl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge meryl

Remove meryl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge meryl

Dependencies

meryl have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libstdc++6

References

• meryl website

Summary

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