How To Install python-pbh5tools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pbh5tools on Debian 9.
What is python-pbh5tools
python-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.
pbh5tools is part of the SMRTAnalysis suite. This package provides the Python 2 backend library
There are three methods to install python-pbh5tools 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 python-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 python-pbh5tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-pbh5tools
Install python-pbh5tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-pbh5tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-pbh5tools
Install python-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 python-pbh5tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-pbh5tools
How To Uninstall python-pbh5tools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-pbh5tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-pbh5tools
Uninstall python-pbh5tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-pbh5tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-pbh5tools
Remove python-pbh5tools Configurations and Data
To remove python-pbh5tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-pbh5tools
Remove python-pbh5tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-pbh5tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-pbh5tools
Dependencies
python-pbh5tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pbh5tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
