How To Install pirs-profiles on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pirs-profiles on Kali Linux.

What is pirs-profiles

pirs-profiles is:

The program pIRS can be used for simulating Illumina PE reads, with a series of characters generated by Illumina sequencing platform, such as insert size distribution, sequencing error(substitution, insertion, deletion), quality score and GC content-coverage bias.

The insert size follows a normal distribution, so users should set the mean value and standard deviation. Usually the standard deviation is set as 1/20 of the mean value. The normal distribution by Box-Muller method is simulated.

The program simulates sequencing error, quality score and GC content- coverage bias according to the empirical distribution profile. Some default profiles counted from lots of real sequencing data are provided.

To simulate reads from diploid genome, users should simulate the diploid genome sequence firstly by setting the ratio of heterozygosis SNP, heterozygosis InDel and structure variation.

This package contains the profile data.

There are three methods to install pirs-profiles 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 pirs-profiles Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pirs-profiles

Install pirs-profiles Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pirs-profiles

Install pirs-profiles 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 pirs-profiles using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pirs-profiles

How To Uninstall pirs-profiles on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the pirs-profiles package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pirs-profiles

Uninstall pirs-profiles And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pirs-profiles

Remove pirs-profiles Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge pirs-profiles

Remove pirs-profiles configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pirs-profiles

Dependencies

pirs-profiles have the following dependencies:

References

• pirs-profiles website

Summary

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