How To Install libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev is VBZ compression plugin for nanopore signal data (devel)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev on Debian 12.

What is libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev

libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev is:

VBZ Compression uses variable byte integer encoding to compress nanopore signal data.

The performance of VBZ is achieved by taking advantage of the properties of the raw signal and therefore is most effective when applied to the signal dataset. Other datasets you may have in your Fast5 files will not be able to take advantage of the default VBZ settings for compression. VBZ will be used as the default compression scheme in a future release of MinKNOW.

This package contains the header files.

There are three methods to install libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libvbz-hdf-plugin-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 libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev

Install libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev

Install libvbz-hdf-plugin-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev

How To Uninstall libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev

Uninstall libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev

Remove libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev

Remove libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev

Dependencies

libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvbz-hdf-plugin-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.