How To Install python-pysam on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pysam
on Debian 9.
What is python-pysam
python-pysam is:
Pysam is a Python module for reading and manipulating Samfiles. It’s a lightweight wrapper of the samtools C-API. Pysam also includes an interface for tabix.
This package installs the module for Python 2.
There are three methods to install python-pysam
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-pysam 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-pysam
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-pysam
Install python-pysam Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-pysam
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-pysam
Install python-pysam 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-pysam
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-pysam
How To Uninstall python-pysam on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-pysam
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-pysam
Uninstall python-pysam And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-pysam
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-pysam
Remove python-pysam Configurations and Data
To remove python-pysam
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-pysam
Remove python-pysam configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-pysam
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-pysam
Dependencies
python-pysam have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pysam
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.