How To Install qtltools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qtltools
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is qtltools
qtltools is:
QTLtools is a tool set for molecular Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) discovery and analysis. It allows user to go from the raw sequence data to collection of molecular QTL in few easy-to-perform steps. QTLtools contains multiple methods to prepare the data, to discover proximal and distal molecular QTL and to finally integrate them with GWAS variants and functional annotations of the genome.
There are three methods to install qtltools
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install qtltools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install qtltools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qtltools
Install qtltools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qtltools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qtltools
Install qtltools 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install qtltools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qtltools
How To Uninstall qtltools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the qtltools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qtltools
Uninstall qtltools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qtltools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove qtltools
Remove qtltools Configurations and Data
To remove qtltools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qtltools
Remove qtltools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qtltools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qtltools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qtltools
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.