How To Install arden on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
2 minutes • 400 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install arden on Ubuntu.
What is arden
arden is:
ARDEN (Artificial Reference Driven Estimation of false positives in NGS data) is a novel benchmark that estimates error rates based on real experimental reads and an additionally generated artificial reference genome. It allows the computation of error rates specifically for a dataset and the construction of a ROC-curve. Thereby, it can be used to optimize parameters for read mappers, to select read mappers for a specific problem or also to filter alignments based on quality estimation.
There are three methods to install arden on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install arden Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install arden using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install arden
Install arden Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install arden using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install arden
Install arden Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install arden using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install arden
How To Uninstall arden on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the arden package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove arden
Uninstall arden And Its Dependencies
To uninstall arden and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove arden
Remove arden Configurations and Data
To remove arden configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge arden
Remove arden configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove arden configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge arden
Dependencies
arden have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install arden package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.