How To Install harvest-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install harvest-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is harvest-tools
harvest-tools is:
HarvestTools is a utility for creating and interfacing with Gingr files, which are efficient archives that the Harvest Suite uses to store reference-compressed multi-alignments, phylogenetic trees, filtered variants and annotations. Though designed for use with Parsnp and Gingr, HarvestTools can also be used for generic conversion between standard bioinformatics file formats.
There are three methods to install harvest-tools on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install harvest-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 harvest-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install harvest-tools
Install harvest-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install harvest-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install harvest-tools
Install harvest-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install harvest-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install harvest-tools
How To Uninstall harvest-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the harvest-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove harvest-tools
Uninstall harvest-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall harvest-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove harvest-tools
Remove harvest-tools Configurations and Data
To remove harvest-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge harvest-tools
Remove harvest-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove harvest-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge harvest-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install harvest-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
