How To Install qcumber on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install qcumber on Kali Linux. qcumber is quality control of genomic sequences

Introduction

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

What is qcumber

qcumber is:

QCPipeline is a tool for quality control. The workflow is as follows:

  1. Quality control with FastQC
  2. Trim Reads with Trimmomatic
  3. Quality control of trimmed reads with FastQC
  4. Map reads against reference using bowtie2
  5. Classify reads with Kraken

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install qcumber

Install qcumber Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install qcumber

Install qcumber 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 qcumber using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install qcumber

How To Uninstall qcumber on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove qcumber

Uninstall qcumber And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove qcumber

Remove qcumber Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge qcumber

Remove qcumber configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qcumber

Dependencies

qcumber have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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