How To Install poretools 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 poretools on Ubuntu.
What is poretools
poretools is:
poretools is a flexible toolkit for exploring datasets generated by nanopore sequencing devices from MinION for the purposes of quality control and downstream analysis. Poretools operates directly on the native FAST5 (a variant of the HDF5 standard) file format produced by ONT and provides a wealth of format conversion utilities and data exploration and visualization tools.
There are three methods to install poretools 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 poretools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install poretools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install poretools
Install poretools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install poretools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install poretools
Install poretools 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 poretools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install poretools
How To Uninstall poretools on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the poretools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove poretools
Uninstall poretools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall poretools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove poretools
Remove poretools Configurations and Data
To remove poretools configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge poretools
Remove poretools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove poretools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge poretools
Dependencies
poretools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install poretools package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.