How To Install libbamtools-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbamtools-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libbamtools-dev
libbamtools-dev is:
BamTools facilitates research analysis and data management using BAM files. It copes with the enormous amount of data produced by current sequencing technologies that is typically stored in compressed, binary formats that are not easily handled by the text-based parsers commonly used in bioinformatics research.
BamTools provides both a C++ API for BAM file support as well as a command-line toolkit.
This is the developers API package.
There are three methods to install libbamtools-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 libbamtools-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 libbamtools-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libbamtools-dev
Install libbamtools-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libbamtools-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libbamtools-dev
Install libbamtools-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 libbamtools-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libbamtools-dev
How To Uninstall libbamtools-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libbamtools-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libbamtools-dev
Uninstall libbamtools-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libbamtools-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbamtools-dev
Remove libbamtools-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libbamtools-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libbamtools-dev
Remove libbamtools-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libbamtools-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbamtools-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbamtools-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
