How To Install r-bioc-biocviews on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-bioc-biocviews on Kali Linux. r-bioc-biocviews is Categorized views of R package repositories

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-bioc-biocviews on Kali Linux.

What is r-bioc-biocviews

r-bioc-biocviews is:

Infrastructure to support ‘views’ used to classify Bioconductor packages. ‘biocViews’ are directed acyclic graphs of terms from a controlled vocabulary. There are three major classifications, corresponding to ‘software’, ‘annotation’, and ’experiment data’ packages.

There are three methods to install r-bioc-biocviews 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 r-bioc-biocviews Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install r-bioc-biocviews

Install r-bioc-biocviews Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install r-bioc-biocviews using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install r-bioc-biocviews

Install r-bioc-biocviews 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 r-bioc-biocviews using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install r-bioc-biocviews

How To Uninstall r-bioc-biocviews on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the r-bioc-biocviews package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove r-bioc-biocviews

Uninstall r-bioc-biocviews And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-bioc-biocviews

Remove r-bioc-biocviews Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge r-bioc-biocviews

Remove r-bioc-biocviews configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-bioc-biocviews

Dependencies

r-bioc-biocviews have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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