How To Install brig on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install brig on Debian 9.
What is brig
brig is:
BRIG can display circular comparisons between a large number of genomes, with a focus on handling genome assembly data.
- Images show similarity between a central reference sequence and other sequences as concentric rings.
- BRIG will perform all BLAST comparisons and file parsing automatically via a simple GUI.
- Contig boundaries and read coverage can be displayed for draft genomes; customized graphs and annotations can be displayed.
- Using a user-defined set of genes as input, BRIG can display gene presence, absence, truncation or sequence variation in a set of complete genomes, draft genomes or even raw, unassembled sequence data.
- BRIG also accepts SAM-formatted read-mapping files enabling genomic regions present in unassembled sequence data from multiple samples to be compared simultaneously
There are three methods to install brig 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 brig Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install brig using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install brig
Install brig Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install brig using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install brig
Install brig 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 brig using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install brig
How To Uninstall brig on Debian 9
To uninstall only the brig package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove brig
Uninstall brig And Its Dependencies
To uninstall brig and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove brig
Remove brig Configurations and Data
To remove brig configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge brig
Remove brig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove brig configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge brig
Dependencies
brig have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install brig package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.