How To Install velvet-tests on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is velvet-tests

velvet-tests 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 contains the test data to run the unit tests of Velvet, a de novo genomic assembler, that could be used as additional set of examples.

There are three methods to install velvet-tests 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-tests 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-tests using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install velvet-tests

Install velvet-tests Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install velvet-tests

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

sudo aptitude -y install velvet-tests

How To Uninstall velvet-tests on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove velvet-tests

Uninstall velvet-tests And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove velvet-tests

Remove velvet-tests Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge velvet-tests

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

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

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

Dependencies

velvet-tests have the following dependencies:

References

• velvet-tests website

Summary

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