How To Install nanostat on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nanostat on Ubuntu.
What is nanostat
nanostat is:
NanoStat calculates various statistics from a long read sequencing dataset in fastq, bam or albacore sequencing summary format. It is meant to augment pipelines for the interpretation of long DNA sequences as generated with the Nanopore.
This package provides the executable NanoStat.
There are three methods to install nanostat 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 nanostat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nanostat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nanostat
Install nanostat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nanostat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nanostat
Install nanostat 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 nanostat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nanostat
How To Uninstall nanostat on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the nanostat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nanostat
Uninstall nanostat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nanostat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nanostat
Remove nanostat Configurations and Data
To remove nanostat configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nanostat
Remove nanostat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nanostat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nanostat
Dependencies
nanostat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nanostat package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.