How To Install minia on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install minia
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is minia
minia is:
Short-read DNA sequence assembler based on a de Bruijn graph, capable of assembling a human genome on a desktop computer in a day.
The output of Minia is a set of contigs. Minia produces results of similar contiguity and accuracy to other de Bruijn assemblers (e.g. Velvet).
There are three methods to install minia
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 minia Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install minia
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install minia
Install minia Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install minia
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install minia
Install minia 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 minia
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install minia
How To Uninstall minia on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the minia
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove minia
Uninstall minia And Its Dependencies
To uninstall minia
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove minia
Remove minia Configurations and Data
To remove minia
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge minia
Remove minia configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove minia
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge minia
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install minia
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.