How to Install and Uninstall samtools Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "samtools" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install samtools on Kali Linux

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install samtools

2. Uninstall "samtools" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall samtools on Kali Linux:

$ sudo apt remove samtools $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the samtools package on Kali Linux

Package: samtools
Version: 1.19.2-1
Installed-Size: 1392
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libhts3 (>= 1.17), libncurses6 (>= 6), libtinfo6 (>= 6), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: cwltool
Size: 644976
SHA256: 556222904bc9d0fe74359d354ca693585deeb75288ee44f127f209328a874de8
SHA1: ad1db8aea2877318fa626c6029798770c80ef9f7
MD5sum: 3e306eb37a3c6366755f6457b1dd7a9a
Description: processing sequence alignments in SAM, BAM and CRAM formats
Samtools is a set of utilities that manipulate nucleotide sequence alignments
in the binary BAM format. It imports from and exports to the ascii SAM
(Sequence Alignment/Map) and CRAM formats, does sorting, merging and indexing,
and allows one to retrieve reads in any regions swiftly. It is designed to work
on a stream, and is able to open a BAM or CRAM (not SAM) file on a remote FTP
or HTTP server.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://www.htslib.org/
Tag: field::biology, field::biology:bioinformatics, implemented-in::c,
interface::commandline, network::client, protocol::ftp, protocol::http,
role::program, scope::utility, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::analysing,
use::calculating, use::filtering, works-with::biological-sequence
Section: science
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/samtools/samtools_1.19.2-1_amd64.deb