How To Install macs on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install macs on Debian 9.
What is macs
macs is:
MACS empirically models the length of the sequenced ChIP fragments, which tends to be shorter than sonication or library construction size estimates, and uses it to improve the spatial resolution of predicted binding sites. MACS also uses a dynamic Poisson distribution to effectively capture local biases in the genome sequence, allowing for more sensitive and robust prediction. MACS compares favorably to existing ChIP-Seq peak-finding algorithms, is publicly available open source, and can be used for ChIP-Seq with or without control samples.
There are three methods to install macs on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install macs Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install macs using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install macs
Install macs Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install macs using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install macs
Install macs 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 macs using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install macs
How To Uninstall macs on Debian 9
To uninstall only the macs package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove macs
Uninstall macs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall macs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove macs
Remove macs Configurations and Data
To remove macs configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge macs
Remove macs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove macs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge macs
Dependencies
macs have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install macs package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.