How To Install poretools on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install poretools on Kali Linux. poretools is toolkit for nanopore nucleotide sequencing data

Introduction

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

What is poretools

poretools 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.

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

sudo apt-get -y install poretools

Install poretools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install poretools

Install poretools 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install poretools

How To Uninstall poretools on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove poretools

Uninstall poretools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove poretools

Remove poretools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge poretools

Remove poretools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge poretools

Dependencies

poretools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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