How To Install libbam-dev on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbam-dev on Debian 11. libbam-dev is manipulates nucleotide sequence alignments in BAM or SAM format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbam-dev on Debian 11.

What is libbam-dev

libbam-dev is:

The BAM library provides I/O and various operations on manipulating nucleotide sequence alignments in the BAM (Binary Alignment/Mapping) or SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format. It now supports importing from or exporting to SAM, sorting, merging, generating pileup, and quickly retrieval of reads overlapped with a specified region.

This library is part of SAMtools version 0.1.19. It is obsolete and provided only to build software that has not yet transitioned to the HTSlib, which replaces this library.

There are three methods to install libbam-dev on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libbam-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libbam-dev

Install libbam-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libbam-dev

Install libbam-dev 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 libbam-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libbam-dev

How To Uninstall libbam-dev on Debian 11

To uninstall only the libbam-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libbam-dev

Uninstall libbam-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libbam-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbam-dev

Remove libbam-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libbam-dev configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libbam-dev

Remove libbam-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbam-dev

Dependencies

libbam-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbam-dev package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.