How To Install rtax on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is rtax

rtax is:

Short-read technologies for microbial community profiling are increasingly popular, yet previous techniques for assigning taxonomy to paired-end reads perform poorly. RTAX provides rapid taxonomic assignments of paired-end reads using a consensus algorithm.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rtax

Install rtax Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rtax

Install rtax 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 rtax using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rtax

How To Uninstall rtax on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove rtax

Uninstall rtax And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rtax

Remove rtax Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge rtax

Remove rtax configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rtax

Dependencies

rtax have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• rtax website

Summary

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