How To Install khmer-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install khmer-common
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is khmer-common
khmer-common is:
khmer is a library and suite of command line tools for working with DNA sequence. It is primarily aimed at short-read sequencing data such as that produced by the Illumina platform. khmer takes a k-mer-centric approach to sequence analysis, hence the name.
This package contains common files for liboxli and khmer
There are three methods to install khmer-common
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install khmer-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install khmer-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install khmer-common
Install khmer-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install khmer-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install khmer-common
Install khmer-common 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 khmer-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install khmer-common
How To Uninstall khmer-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the khmer-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove khmer-common
Uninstall khmer-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall khmer-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove khmer-common
Remove khmer-common Configurations and Data
To remove khmer-common
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge khmer-common
Remove khmer-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove khmer-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge khmer-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install khmer-common
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.