How To Install libjellyfish-2.0-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjellyfish-2.0-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libjellyfish-2.0-dev
libjellyfish-2.0-dev is:
JELLYFISH is a tool for fast, memory-efficient counting of k-mers in DNA. A k-mer is a substring of length k, and counting the occurrences of all such substrings is a central step in many analyses of DNA sequence. JELLYFISH can count k-mers using an order of magnitude less memory and an order of magnitude faster than other k-mer counting packages by using an efficient encoding of a hash table and by exploiting the “compare-and-swap” CPU instruction to increase parallelism.
JELLYFISH is a command-line program that reads FASTA and multi-FASTA files containing DNA sequences. It outputs its k-mer counts in an binary format, which can be translated into a human-readable text format using the “jellyfish dump” command.
This package contains the development files (static library and header files)
There are three methods to install libjellyfish-2.0-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 libjellyfish-2.0-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 libjellyfish-2.0-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libjellyfish-2.0-dev
Install libjellyfish-2.0-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libjellyfish-2.0-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libjellyfish-2.0-dev
Install libjellyfish-2.0-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 libjellyfish-2.0-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libjellyfish-2.0-dev
How To Uninstall libjellyfish-2.0-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libjellyfish-2.0-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libjellyfish-2.0-dev
Uninstall libjellyfish-2.0-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libjellyfish-2.0-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjellyfish-2.0-dev
Remove libjellyfish-2.0-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libjellyfish-2.0-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libjellyfish-2.0-dev
Remove libjellyfish-2.0-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libjellyfish-2.0-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjellyfish-2.0-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjellyfish-2.0-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
