How To Install libjellyfish-2.0-2 on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjellyfish-2.0-2 on Debian 9. libjellyfish-2.0-2 is count k-mers in DNA sequences (dynamic library of jellyfish)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjellyfish-2.0-2 on Debian 9.

What is libjellyfish-2.0-2

libjellyfish-2.0-2 is:

JELLYFISH is a tool for fast, memory-efficient counting of k-mers in DNA. A k-mer is a substring of length k, and counting the occurrences of all such substrings is a central step in many analyses of DNA sequence. JELLYFISH can count k-mers using an order of magnitude less memory and an order of magnitude faster than other k-mer counting packages by using an efficient encoding of a hash table and by exploiting the “compare-and-swap” CPU instruction to increase parallelism.

JELLYFISH is a command-line program that reads FASTA and multi-FASTA files containing DNA sequences. It outputs its k-mer counts in an binary format, which can be translated into a human-readable text format using the “jellyfish dump” command.

This package contains the dynamic library the main executable of jellyfish is linked to.

There are three methods to install libjellyfish-2.0-2 on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libjellyfish-2.0-2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libjellyfish-2.0-2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libjellyfish-2.0-2

Install libjellyfish-2.0-2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libjellyfish-2.0-2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libjellyfish-2.0-2

Install libjellyfish-2.0-2 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 libjellyfish-2.0-2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libjellyfish-2.0-2

How To Uninstall libjellyfish-2.0-2 on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libjellyfish-2.0-2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libjellyfish-2.0-2

Uninstall libjellyfish-2.0-2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libjellyfish-2.0-2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjellyfish-2.0-2

Remove libjellyfish-2.0-2 Configurations and Data

To remove libjellyfish-2.0-2 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libjellyfish-2.0-2

Remove libjellyfish-2.0-2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libjellyfish-2.0-2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjellyfish-2.0-2

Dependencies

libjellyfish-2.0-2 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjellyfish-2.0-2 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.