How To Install poretools-data on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is poretools-data

poretools-data is:

poretools is a flexible toolkit for exploring datasets generated by nanopore sequencing devices from MinION for the purposes of quality control and downstream analysis. Poretools operates directly on the native FAST5 (a variant of the HDF5 standard) file format produced by ONT and provides a wealth of format conversion utilities and data exploration and visualization tools.

This package provides example nanopore sequencing data in fast5 format.

There are three methods to install poretools-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 poretools-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 poretools-data using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install poretools-data

Install poretools-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install poretools-data

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

sudo aptitude -y install poretools-data

How To Uninstall poretools-data on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove poretools-data

Uninstall poretools-data And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove poretools-data

Remove poretools-data Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge poretools-data

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

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

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

Dependencies

poretools-data have the following dependencies:

References

• poretools-data website

Summary

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