How To Install pbalign on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pbalign on Debian 10.
What is pbalign
pbalign is:
pbalign aligns PacBio reads to reference sequences, filters aligned reads according to user-specific filtering criteria, and converts the output to either the SAM format or PacBio Compare HDF5 (e.g., .cmp.h5) format.
This package is part of the SMRTAnalysis suite.
There are three methods to install pbalign on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pbalign Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pbalign using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pbalign
Install pbalign Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pbalign using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pbalign
Install pbalign 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 pbalign using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pbalign
How To Uninstall pbalign on Debian 10
To uninstall only the pbalign package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pbalign
Uninstall pbalign And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pbalign and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pbalign
Remove pbalign Configurations and Data
To remove pbalign configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pbalign
Remove pbalign configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pbalign configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pbalign
Dependencies
pbalign have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pbalign package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
