How To Install flye on Debian 12

Learn how to install flye on Debian 12 with this tutorial. flye is de novo assembler for single molecule sequencing reads using repeat graphs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flye on Debian 12.

What is flye

flye is:

Flye is a de novo assembler for single molecule sequencing reads, such as those produced by PacBio and Oxford Nanopore Technologies. It is designed for a wide range of datasets, from small bacterial projects to large mammalian-scale assemblies. The package represents a complete pipeline: it takes raw PacBio / ONT reads as input and outputs polished contigs. Flye also has a special mode for metagenome assembly.

There are three methods to install flye on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install flye Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install flye using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install flye

Install flye Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install flye using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install flye

Install flye 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install flye using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install flye

How To Uninstall flye on Debian 12

To uninstall only the flye package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove flye

Uninstall flye And Its Dependencies

To uninstall flye and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove flye

Remove flye Configurations and Data

To remove flye configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge flye

Remove flye configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove flye configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flye

Dependencies

flye have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install flye package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.