How To Install rambo-k on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rambo-k
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is rambo-k
rambo-k is:
RAMBO-K is a tool for rapid and sensitive removal of background sequences from Next Generation Sequencing data.
RAMBO-K is a reference-based tool for rapid and sensitive extraction of one organisms reads from a mixed dataset. It is based on a Markov chain implementation, which uses genomic characteristics of each reference to assign reads to the associated set.
There are three methods to install rambo-k
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rambo-k Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rambo-k
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rambo-k
Install rambo-k Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rambo-k
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rambo-k
Install rambo-k 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 rambo-k
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rambo-k
How To Uninstall rambo-k on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the rambo-k
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rambo-k
Uninstall rambo-k And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rambo-k
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rambo-k
Remove rambo-k Configurations and Data
To remove rambo-k
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rambo-k
Remove rambo-k configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rambo-k
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rambo-k
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rambo-k
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.