How To Install pbh5tools on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pbh5tools on Debian 10.
What is pbh5tools
pbh5tools is:
This package provides functionality for manipulating and extracting data from cmp.h5 and bas.h5 files produced by the Pacific Biosciences sequencers. cmp.h5 files contain alignment information while bas.h5 files contain base-call information.
This package is part of the SMRTAnalysis suite.
There are three methods to install pbh5tools 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 pbh5tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pbh5tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pbh5tools
Install pbh5tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pbh5tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pbh5tools
Install pbh5tools 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 pbh5tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pbh5tools
How To Uninstall pbh5tools on Debian 10
To uninstall only the pbh5tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pbh5tools
Uninstall pbh5tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pbh5tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pbh5tools
Remove pbh5tools Configurations and Data
To remove pbh5tools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pbh5tools
Remove pbh5tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pbh5tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pbh5tools
Dependencies
pbh5tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pbh5tools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
