How To Install anfo on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install anfo on Debian 10.
What is anfo
anfo is:
Anfo is a mapper in the spirit of Soap/Maq/Bowtie, but its implementation takes more after BLAST/BLAT. It’s most useful for the alignment of sequencing reads where the DNA sequence is somehow modified (think ancient DNA or bisulphite treatment) and/or there is more divergence between sample and reference than what fast mappers will handle gracefully (say the reference genome is missing and a related species is used instead).
There are three methods to install anfo on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install anfo Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install anfo using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install anfo
Install anfo Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install anfo using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install anfo
Install anfo 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 anfo using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install anfo
How To Uninstall anfo on Debian 10
To uninstall only the anfo package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove anfo
Uninstall anfo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall anfo and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove anfo
Remove anfo Configurations and Data
To remove anfo configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge anfo
Remove anfo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove anfo configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge anfo
Dependencies
anfo have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install anfo package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.