How To Install htslib on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install htslib
on CentOS 7.
What is htslib
HTSlib is an implementation of a unified C library for accessing common file formats, such as SAM, CRAM and VCF, used for high-throughput sequencing data, and is the core library used by samtools and bcftools.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install htslib
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install htslib.
Install htslib on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install htslib
using yum
by running the following command:
Install htslib on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install htslib
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall htslib on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the htslib
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install htslib
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.