How To Install ruby-rgfa on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rgfa on Kali Linux.

What is ruby-rgfa

ruby-rgfa is:

The Graphical Fragment Assembly (GFA) format is a proposed file format to describe the product of a genome sequence assembly process. rgfa implements the proposed specifications for the GFA format described under https://github.com/pmelsted/GFA-spec/blob/master/GFA-spec.md as closely as possible. The library allows one to create an RGFA object from a file in the GFA format or from scratch, to enumerate the graph elements (segments, links, containments, paths and header lines), to traverse the graph (by traversing all links outgoing from or incoming to a segment), to search for elements (e.g. which links connect two segments) and to manipulate the graph (e.g. to eliminate a link or a segment or to duplicate a segment distributing the read counts evenly on the copies).

There are three methods to install ruby-rgfa 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 ruby-rgfa Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-rgfa

Install ruby-rgfa Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-rgfa

Install ruby-rgfa 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 ruby-rgfa using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-rgfa

How To Uninstall ruby-rgfa on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ruby-rgfa package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ruby-rgfa

Uninstall ruby-rgfa And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-rgfa

Remove ruby-rgfa Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-rgfa configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-rgfa

Remove ruby-rgfa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-rgfa

Dependencies

ruby-rgfa have the following dependencies:

• ruby

References

• ruby-rgfa website

Summary

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