How To Install ray on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install ray on Kali Linux. ray is de novo genome assemblies of next-gen sequencing data

Introduction

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

What is ray

ray is:

Ray is a parallel software that computes de novo genome assemblies with next-generation sequencing data. Ray is written in C++ and can run in parallel on numerous interconnected computers using the message-passing interface (MPI) standard. Included:

  • Ray de novo assembly of single genomes
  • Ray M?ta de novo assembly of metagenomes
  • Ray Communities microbe abundance + taxonomic profiling
  • Ray Ontologies gene ontology profiling

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ray

Install ray Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ray

Install ray 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 ray using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ray

How To Uninstall ray on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ray

Uninstall ray And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ray

Remove ray Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ray

Remove ray configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ray

Dependencies

ray have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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