How To Install bustools on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bustools
on Kali Linux.
What is bustools
bustools is:
This package contains BUStools program, it can be used to error correct barcodes, collapse UMIs, produce gene count or transcript compatibility count matrices
There are three methods to install bustools
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 bustools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bustools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bustools
Install bustools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bustools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bustools
Install bustools 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 bustools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bustools
How To Uninstall bustools on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the bustools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bustools
Uninstall bustools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bustools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bustools
Remove bustools Configurations and Data
To remove bustools
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bustools
Remove bustools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bustools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bustools
Dependencies
bustools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bustools
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.