How To Install libbam-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbam-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libbam-dev
libbam-dev is:
The BAM library provides I/O and various operations on manipulating nucleotide sequence alignments in the BAM (Binary Alignment/Mapping) or SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format. It now supports importing from or exporting to SAM, sorting, merging, generating pileup, and quickly retrieval of reads overlapped with a specified region.
This library is part of SAMtools version 0.1.19. It is obsolete and provided only to build software that has not yet transitioned to the HTSlib, which replaces this library.
There are three methods to install libbam-dev 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 libbam-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libbam-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libbam-dev
Install libbam-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libbam-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libbam-dev
Install libbam-dev 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 libbam-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libbam-dev
How To Uninstall libbam-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libbam-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libbam-dev
Uninstall libbam-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libbam-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbam-dev
Remove libbam-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libbam-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libbam-dev
Remove libbam-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libbam-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbam-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbam-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
