How To Install openms-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openms-common on Kali Linux.

What is openms-common

openms-common is:

OpenMS is a package for LC/MS data management and analysis. OpenMS offers an infrastructure for the development of mass spectrometry-related software and powerful 2D and 3D visualization solutions.

OpenMS offers analyses for various quantitation protocols, including label-free quantitation, SILAC, iTRAQ, SRM, SWATH??

It provides built-in algorithms for de-novo identification and database search, as well as adapters to other state-of-the art tools like X!Tandem, Mascot, OMSSA??

OpenMS supports the Proteomics Standard Initiative (PSI) formats for MS data and supports easy integration of tools into workflow engines like Knime, Galaxy, WS-Pgrade, and TOPPAS via the TOPPtools concept and a unified parameter handling.

This package brings data shared by the different binaries of the OpenMS software package (libOpenMS and libOpenMS_GUI libraries and the OpenMS Proteomic Pipeline binary tools).

There are three methods to install openms-common 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 openms-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install openms-common

Install openms-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install openms-common

Install openms-common 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 openms-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install openms-common

How To Uninstall openms-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the openms-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove openms-common

Uninstall openms-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove openms-common

Remove openms-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge openms-common

Remove openms-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openms-common

Dependencies

openms-common have the following dependencies:

References

• openms-common website

Summary

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