How To Install lighter on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lighter
on Kali Linux.
What is lighter
lighter is:
Lighter is a fast, memory-efficient tool for correcting sequencing errors. Lighter avoids counting k-mers. Instead, it uses a pair of Bloom filters, one holding a sample of the input k-mers and the other holding k-mers likely to be correct. As long as the sampling fraction is adjusted in inverse proportion to the depth of sequencing, Bloom filter size can be held constant while maintaining near-constant accuracy. Lighter is parallelized, uses no secondary storage, and is both faster and more memory-efficient than competing approaches while achieving comparable accuracy.
There are three methods to install lighter
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 lighter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lighter
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lighter
Install lighter Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lighter
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lighter
Install lighter 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 lighter
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lighter
How To Uninstall lighter on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the lighter
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lighter
Uninstall lighter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lighter
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lighter
Remove lighter Configurations and Data
To remove lighter
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lighter
Remove lighter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lighter
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lighter
Dependencies
lighter have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lighter
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.