How To Install spades on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spades
on Kali Linux.
What is spades
spades is:
The SPAdes ?? St. Petersburg genome assembler is intended for both standard isolates and single-cell MDA bacteria assemblies. It works with Illumina or IonTorrent reads and is capable of providing hybrid assemblies using PacBio and Sanger reads. You can also provide additional contigs that will be used as long reads.
There are three methods to install spades
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 spades Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spades
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spades
Install spades Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spades
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spades
Install spades 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 spades
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spades
How To Uninstall spades on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the spades
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spades
Uninstall spades And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spades
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spades
Remove spades Configurations and Data
To remove spades
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spades
Remove spades configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spades
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spades
Dependencies
spades have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spades
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.