How To Install plasmidseeker on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is plasmidseeker

plasmidseeker is:

PlasmidSeeker is a k-mer based program for the identification of known plasmids from bacterial whole genome sequencing reads.

PlasmidSeeker that enables the detection of plasmids from bacterial WGS data without read assembly. The PlasmidSeeker algorithm is based on k-mers and uses k-mer abundance to distinguish between plasmid and bacterial sequences. The performance of PlasmidSeeker was tested on a set of simulated and real bacterial WGS samples, resulting in 100% sensitivity and 99.98% specificity.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install plasmidseeker

Install plasmidseeker Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install plasmidseeker

Install plasmidseeker 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 plasmidseeker using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plasmidseeker

How To Uninstall plasmidseeker on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove plasmidseeker

Uninstall plasmidseeker And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasmidseeker

Remove plasmidseeker Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge plasmidseeker

Remove plasmidseeker configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasmidseeker

Dependencies

plasmidseeker have the following dependencies:

• genometester

References

• plasmidseeker website

Summary

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