How To Install vcfanno-examples on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vcfanno-examples on Kali Linux.

What is vcfanno-examples

vcfanno-examples is:

Vcfanno allows you to quickly annotate your VCF with any number of INFO fields from any number of VCFs or BED files. It uses a simple conf file to allow the user to specify the source annotation files and fields and how they will be added to the info of the query VCF.

• For VCF, values are pulled by name from the INFO field with special cases of ID and FILTER to pull from those VCF columns.
• For BED, values are pulled from (1-based) column number.
• For BAM, depth (count), “mapq” and “seq” are currently supported.

This package contains a test data set as well as sample scripts running some test suite provided by Debian also as autopkgtest.

There are three methods to install vcfanno-examples 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 vcfanno-examples Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install vcfanno-examples

Install vcfanno-examples Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install vcfanno-examples

Install vcfanno-examples 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 vcfanno-examples using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vcfanno-examples

How To Uninstall vcfanno-examples on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the vcfanno-examples package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove vcfanno-examples

Uninstall vcfanno-examples And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vcfanno-examples

Remove vcfanno-examples Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge vcfanno-examples

Remove vcfanno-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vcfanno-examples

Dependencies

vcfanno-examples have the following dependencies:

References

• vcfanno-examples website

Summary

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