How To Install wtdbg2-examples 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 wtdbg2-examples on Ubuntu.
What is wtdbg2-examples
wtdbg2-examples is:
Wtdbg2 is a de novo sequence assembler for long noisy reads produced by PacBio or Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT). It assembles raw reads without error correction and then builds the consensus from intermediate assembly output. Wtdbg2 is able to assemble the human and even the 32Gb Axolotl genome at a speed tens of times faster than CANU and FALCON while producing contigs of comparable base accuracy.
This package contains a test data set as well as sample scripts running some test suite provided by Debian also as autopkgtest.
There are three methods to install wtdbg2-examples 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 wtdbg2-examples Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wtdbg2-examples using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wtdbg2-examples
Install wtdbg2-examples Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wtdbg2-examples using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wtdbg2-examples
Install wtdbg2-examples 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 wtdbg2-examples using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wtdbg2-examples
How To Uninstall wtdbg2-examples on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the wtdbg2-examples package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wtdbg2-examples
Uninstall wtdbg2-examples And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wtdbg2-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wtdbg2-examples
Remove wtdbg2-examples Configurations and Data
To remove wtdbg2-examples configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wtdbg2-examples
Remove wtdbg2-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wtdbg2-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wtdbg2-examples
Dependencies
wtdbg2-examples have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wtdbg2-examples package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.