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+# Copyright Spack Project Developers. See COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+
+from spack_repo.builtin.build_systems.generic import Package
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class Krona(Package):
+    """Interactively explore metagenomes and more from a web browser."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/marbl/Krona"
+    url = "https://github.com/marbl/Krona/releases/download/v2.8.1/KronaTools-2.8.1.tar"
+
+    license("BSD-3-Clause")
+
+    version("2.8.1", sha256="f3ab44bf172e1f846e8977c7443d2e0c9676b421b26c50e91fa996d70a6bfd10")
+
+    depends_on("perl", type=("build", "run"))
+
+    def patch(self):
+        filter_file(
+            "my \$scriptPath = abs_path\('scripts'\);",  # noqa: W605
+            "my $scriptPath = '{0}';".format(join_path(self.spec.prefix, "scripts")),
+            "install.pl",
+        )
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        install_tree(self.stage.source_path, prefix)
+        install_pl = Executable(join_path(self.stage.source_path, "install.pl"))
+        install_pl("--prefix", prefix)