How To Install gasic on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gasic on Debian 10.
What is gasic
gasic is:
One goal of sequencing based metagenomic analysis is the quantitative taxonomic assessment of microbial community compositions. However, the majority of approaches either quantify at low resolution (e.g. at phylum level) or have severe problems discerning highly similar species. Yet, accurate quantification on species level is desirable in applications such as metagenomic diagnostics or community comparison. GASiC is a method to correct read alignment results for the ambiguities imposed by similarities of genomes. It has superior performance over existing methods.
There are three methods to install gasic 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 gasic Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gasic using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gasic
Install gasic Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gasic using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gasic
Install gasic 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 gasic using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gasic
How To Uninstall gasic on Debian 10
To uninstall only the gasic package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gasic
Uninstall gasic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gasic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gasic
Remove gasic Configurations and Data
To remove gasic configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gasic
Remove gasic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gasic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gasic
Dependencies
gasic have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gasic package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.