How To Install fastq-pair on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fastq-pair
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is fastq-pair
fastq-pair is:
This package rewrites the fastq files with the sequences in order, with matching files for the two files provided on the command line, and then any single reads that are not matched are place in two separate files, one for each original file.
This code is designed to be fast and memory efficient, and works with large fastq files. It does not store the whole file in memory, but rather just stores the locations of each of the indices in the first file provided in memory.
There are three methods to install fastq-pair
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fastq-pair Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fastq-pair
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fastq-pair
Install fastq-pair Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fastq-pair
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fastq-pair
Install fastq-pair 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 fastq-pair
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fastq-pair
How To Uninstall fastq-pair on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the fastq-pair
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fastq-pair
Uninstall fastq-pair And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fastq-pair
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fastq-pair
Remove fastq-pair Configurations and Data
To remove fastq-pair
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fastq-pair
Remove fastq-pair configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fastq-pair
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fastq-pair
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fastq-pair
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.