How To Install libbamtools-dev on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbamtools-dev on Debian 11. libbamtools-dev is C++ API for manipulating BAM (genome alignment) files

Introduction

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

What is libbamtools-dev

libbamtools-dev is:

BamTools facilitates research analysis and data management using BAM files. It copes with the enormous amount of data produced by current sequencing technologies that is typically stored in compressed, binary formats that are not easily handled by the text-based parsers commonly used in bioinformatics research.

BamTools provides both a C++ API for BAM file support as well as a command-line toolkit.

This is the developers API package.

There are three methods to install libbamtools-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 libbamtools-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 libbamtools-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libbamtools-dev

Install libbamtools-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libbamtools-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libbamtools-dev

How To Uninstall libbamtools-dev on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove libbamtools-dev

Uninstall libbamtools-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbamtools-dev

Remove libbamtools-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libbamtools-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

libbamtools-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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