How To Install nanostat on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is nanostat

nanostat is:

NanoStat calculates various statistics from a long read sequencing dataset in fastq, bam or albacore sequencing summary format. It is meant to augment pipelines for the interpretation of long DNA sequences as generated with the Nanopore.

This package provides the executable NanoStat.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install nanostat

Install nanostat Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install nanostat

Install nanostat 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 nanostat using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nanostat

How To Uninstall nanostat on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove nanostat

Uninstall nanostat And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nanostat

Remove nanostat Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge nanostat

Remove nanostat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nanostat

Dependencies

nanostat have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• nanostat website

Summary

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