How To Install scythe on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is scythe

scythe is:

Scythe uses a Naive Bayesian approach to classify contaminant substrings in sequence reads. It considers quality information, which can make it robust in picking out 3’-end adapters, which often include poor quality bases.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install scythe

Install scythe Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install scythe

Install scythe 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 scythe using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install scythe

How To Uninstall scythe on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove scythe

Uninstall scythe And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove scythe

Remove scythe Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge scythe

Remove scythe configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge scythe

Dependencies

scythe have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• zlib1g

References

• scythe website

Summary

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