How To Install hinge on Debian 12

Learn how to install hinge on Debian 12 with this tutorial. hinge is long read genome assembler based on hinging

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hinge on Debian 12.

What is hinge

hinge is:

HINGE is a genome assembler that seeks to achieve optimal repeat resolution by distinguishing repeats that can be resolved given the data from those that cannot. This is accomplished by adding ??hinges?? to reads for constructing an overlap graph where only unresolvable repeats are merged. As a result, HINGE combines the error resilience of overlap-based assemblers with repeat-resolution capabilities of de Bruijn graph assemblers.

There are three methods to install hinge on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install hinge Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install hinge using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install hinge

Install hinge Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install hinge using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install hinge

Install hinge 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 hinge using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hinge

How To Uninstall hinge on Debian 12

To uninstall only the hinge package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove hinge

Uninstall hinge And Its Dependencies

To uninstall hinge and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hinge

Remove hinge Configurations and Data

To remove hinge configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge hinge

Remove hinge configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove hinge configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hinge

Dependencies

hinge have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hinge package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.