How To Install velvet-long on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install velvet-long on Kali Linux.

What is velvet-long

velvet-long is:

Velvet is a de novo genomic assembler specially designed for short read sequencing technologies, such as Solexa or 454, developed by Daniel Zerbino and Ewan Birney at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), near Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.

Velvet currently takes in short read sequences, removes errors then produces high quality unique contigs. It then uses paired read information, if available, to retrieve the repeated areas between contigs.

This package installs special long-mode versions of Velvet, as recommended in the Velvet tutorials.

There are three methods to install velvet-long 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 velvet-long Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install velvet-long

Install velvet-long Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install velvet-long

Install velvet-long 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 velvet-long using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install velvet-long

How To Uninstall velvet-long on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the velvet-long package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove velvet-long

Uninstall velvet-long And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove velvet-long

Remove velvet-long Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge velvet-long

Remove velvet-long configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge velvet-long

Dependencies

velvet-long have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgomp1
• zlib1g

References

• velvet-long website

Summary

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