How To Install crac on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install crac on Kali Linux. crac is integrated RNA-Seq read analysis

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install crac on Kali Linux.

What is crac

crac is:

CRAC is a tool to analyze High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) data in comparison to a reference genome. It is intended for transcriptomic and genomic sequencing reads. More precisely, with transcriptomic reads as input, it predicts point mutations, indels, splice junction, and chimeric RNAs (ie, non colinear splice junctions). CRAC can also output positions and nature of sequence error that it detects in the reads. CRAC uses a genome index. This index must be computed before running the read analysis. For this sake, use the command “crac-index” on your genome files. You can then process the reads using the command crac. See the man page of CRAC (help file) by typing “man crac”. CRAC requires large amount of main memory on your computer. For processing against the Human genome, say 50 million reads of 100 nucleotide each, CRAC requires about 40 gigabytes of main memory. Check whether the system of your computing server is equipped with sufficient amount of memory before launching an analysis.

There are three methods to install crac 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 crac Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install crac

Install crac Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install crac using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install crac

Install crac 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 crac using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install crac

How To Uninstall crac on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the crac package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove crac

Uninstall crac And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove crac

Remove crac Configurations and Data

To remove crac configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge crac

Remove crac configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crac

Dependencies

crac have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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