How To Install metaphlan2-data on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install metaphlan2-data on Kali Linux.

What is metaphlan2-data

metaphlan2-data is:

MetaPhlAn is a computational tool for profiling the composition of microbial communities (Bacteria, Archaea, Eukaryotes and Viruses) from metagenomic shotgun sequencing data with species level resolution. From version 2.0, MetaPhlAn is also able to identify specific strains (in the not-so-frequent cases in which the sample contains a previously sequenced strains) and to track strains across samples for all species.

MetaPhlAn 2.0 relies on ~1M unique clade-specific marker genes (the marker information file can be found at src/utils/markers_info.txt.bz2 or here) identified from ~17,000 reference genomes (~13,500 bacterial and archaeal, ~3,500 viral, and ~110 eukaryotic), allowing:

• unambiguous taxonomic assignments;
• accurate estimation of organismal relative abundance;
• species-level resolution for bacteria, archaea, eukaryotes and viruses;
• strain identification and tracking
• orders of magnitude speedups compared to existing methods.
• metagenomic strain-level population genomics

This package contains the data for metaphlan2.

There are three methods to install metaphlan2-data 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 metaphlan2-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install metaphlan2-data using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install metaphlan2-data

Install metaphlan2-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install metaphlan2-data using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install metaphlan2-data

Install metaphlan2-data 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 metaphlan2-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install metaphlan2-data

How To Uninstall metaphlan2-data on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the metaphlan2-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove metaphlan2-data

Uninstall metaphlan2-data And Its Dependencies

To uninstall metaphlan2-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove metaphlan2-data

Remove metaphlan2-data Configurations and Data

To remove metaphlan2-data configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge metaphlan2-data

Remove metaphlan2-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove metaphlan2-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge metaphlan2-data

Dependencies

metaphlan2-data have the following dependencies:

• debconf
• bowtie2

References

• metaphlan2-data website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install metaphlan2-data package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.