How To Install libfastahack-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfastahack-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libfastahack-dev
libfastahack-dev is:
fastahack is a small application for indexing and extracting sequences and subsequences from FASTA files. The included Fasta.cpp library provides a FASTA reader and indexer that can be embedded into applications which would benefit from directly reading subsequences from FASTA files. The library automatically handles index file generation and use.
Features:
- FASTA index (.fai) generation for FASTA files
- Sequence extraction
- Subsequence extraction
- Sequence statistics (currently only entropy is provided)
Sequence and subsequence extraction use fseek64 to provide fastest-possible extraction without RAM-intensive file loading operations. This makes fastahack a useful tool for bioinformaticists who need to quickly extract many subsequences from a reference FASTA sequence.
This is the development package containing the statically linked library and the header files.
There are three methods to install libfastahack-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 libfastahack-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 libfastahack-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libfastahack-dev
Install libfastahack-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libfastahack-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libfastahack-dev
Install libfastahack-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 libfastahack-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libfastahack-dev
How To Uninstall libfastahack-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libfastahack-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libfastahack-dev
Uninstall libfastahack-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libfastahack-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libfastahack-dev
Remove libfastahack-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libfastahack-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libfastahack-dev
Remove libfastahack-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libfastahack-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libfastahack-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfastahack-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
