How To Install mhap on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mhap on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mhap
mhap is:
The MinHash Alignment Process (MHAP–pronounced MAP) is a reference implementation of a probabilistic sequence overlapping algorithm. Designed to efficiently detect all overlaps between noisy long-read sequence data. It efficiently estimates Jaccard similarity by compressing sequences to their representative fingerprints composed on min-mers (minimum k-mer).
There are three methods to install mhap 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 mhap Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mhap using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mhap
Install mhap Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mhap using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mhap
Install mhap 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 mhap using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mhap
How To Uninstall mhap on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mhap package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mhap
Uninstall mhap And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mhap and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mhap
Remove mhap Configurations and Data
To remove mhap configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mhap
Remove mhap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mhap configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mhap
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mhap package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.