How To Install bwa on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bwa on Fedora 34.
What is bwa
BWA is a program for aligning sequencing reads against a large reference genome (e.g. human genome). It has two major components, one for read shorter than 150bp and the other for longer reads.
We can use yum or dnf to install bwa on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bwa.
Install bwa on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bwa using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bwa
Install bwa on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bwa using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bwa
How To Uninstall bwa on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the bwa package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bwa
bwa Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/bwa
/usr/bin/qualfa2fq.pl
/usr/bin/xa2multi.pl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/fa0842a777382907e58e06b344ddb2992f7ed6
/usr/share/bwa/bwakit
/usr/share/bwa/bwakit/README.md
/usr/share/bwa/bwakit/bwa-postalt.js
/usr/share/bwa/bwakit/run-HLA
/usr/share/bwa/bwakit/run-bwamem
/usr/share/bwa/bwakit/run-gen-ref
/usr/share/bwa/bwakit/typeHLA-selctg.js
/usr/share/bwa/bwakit/typeHLA.js
/usr/share/bwa/bwakit/typeHLA.sh
/usr/share/doc/bwa
/usr/share/doc/bwa/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/bwa/NEWS.md
/usr/share/doc/bwa/README-alt.md
/usr/share/doc/bwa/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/bwa.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bwa on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
