How To Install abyss on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is abyss

abyss is:

ABySS is a de novo, parallel, sequence assembler that is designed for
short reads. It may be used to assemble genome or transcriptome
sequence data. Parallelization is achieved using MPI, OpenMP and
pthread.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install abyss

Install abyss Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install abyss

Install abyss 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 abyss using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install abyss

How To Uninstall abyss on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove abyss

Uninstall abyss And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove abyss

Remove abyss Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge abyss

Remove abyss configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge abyss

Dependencies

abyss have the following dependencies:

• make
• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libgomp1
• libopenmpi3
• libsqlite3-0
• libstdc++6
• perl

References

• abyss website

Summary

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