How To Install sibelia on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is sibelia

sibelia is:

Sibelia (Synteny Block ExpLoration tool) is a comparative genomics tool: It assists biologists in analysing the genomic variations that correlate with pathogens, or the genomic changes that help microorganisms adapt in different environments. Sibelia will also be helpful for the evolutionary and genome rearrangement studies for multiple strains of microorganisms.

Sibelia is useful in finding:

1. shared regions,
2. regions that present in one group of genomes but not in others,
3. rearrangements that transform one genome to other genomes.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install sibelia

Install sibelia Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install sibelia

Install sibelia 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 sibelia using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sibelia

How To Uninstall sibelia on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove sibelia

Uninstall sibelia And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sibelia

Remove sibelia Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge sibelia

Remove sibelia configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sibelia

Dependencies

sibelia have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libdivsufsort3
• libgcc-s1
• libstdc++6
• python3
• lagan

References

• sibelia website

Summary

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