How To Install circos-tools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install circos-tools on Debian 9.
What is circos-tools
circos-tools is:
Circos visualizes data in a circular layout ?? ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions, and creating highly informative publication-quality graphics.
This package provides a set of tools to help process your data: binlinks, bundlelinks, categoryviewer, colorinterpolate, filterlinks, maketutorialimages, orderchr, randomlinks, resample, and tableviewer.
There are three methods to install circos-tools 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 circos-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install circos-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install circos-tools
Install circos-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install circos-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install circos-tools
Install circos-tools 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 circos-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install circos-tools
How To Uninstall circos-tools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the circos-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove circos-tools
Uninstall circos-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall circos-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove circos-tools
Remove circos-tools Configurations and Data
To remove circos-tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge circos-tools
Remove circos-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove circos-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge circos-tools
Dependencies
circos-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install circos-tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.