How To Install simkamin on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is simkamin

simkamin is:

Simka is a de novo comparative metagenomics tool. Simka represents each dataset as a k-mer spectrum and compute several classical ecological distances between them.

The difference with Simka stands in the fact that SimkaMin outputs approximate (but very similar) results by subsampling the kmer space. With this strategy, and with default parameters, SimkaMin is an order of magnitude faster, uses 10 times less memory and 70 times less disk than Simka.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install simkamin

Install simkamin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install simkamin

Install simkamin 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 simkamin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install simkamin

How To Uninstall simkamin on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove simkamin

Uninstall simkamin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove simkamin

Remove simkamin Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge simkamin

Remove simkamin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge simkamin

Dependencies

simkamin have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• simkamin website

Summary

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