How To Install readucks 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 readucks on Ubuntu.
What is readucks
readucks is:
This package is inspired by the demultiplexing options in porechop but without the adapter trimming options - it just demuxes. It uses the parasail library with its Python bindings to do pairwise alignment which provides a considerable speed up over the seqan library used by porechop due to its low-level use of vector processor instructions.
There are three methods to install readucks 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 readucks Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install readucks using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install readucks
Install readucks Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install readucks using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install readucks
Install readucks 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 readucks using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install readucks
How To Uninstall readucks on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the readucks package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove readucks
Uninstall readucks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall readucks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove readucks
Remove readucks Configurations and Data
To remove readucks configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge readucks
Remove readucks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove readucks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge readucks
Dependencies
readucks have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install readucks package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.