How To Install miniasm on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install miniasm
on Debian 9.
What is miniasm
miniasm is:
Miniasm is an experimental very fast OLC-based de novo assembler for noisy long reads. It takes all-vs-all read self-mappings (typically by minimap) as input and outputs an assembly graph in the GFA format. Different from mainstream assemblers, miniasm does not have a consensus step. It simply concatenates pieces of read sequences to generate the final unitig sequences. Thus the per-base error rate is similar to the raw input reads.
There are three methods to install miniasm
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 miniasm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install miniasm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install miniasm
Install miniasm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install miniasm
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install miniasm
Install miniasm 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 miniasm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install miniasm
How To Uninstall miniasm on Debian 9
To uninstall only the miniasm
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove miniasm
Uninstall miniasm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall miniasm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove miniasm
Remove miniasm Configurations and Data
To remove miniasm
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge miniasm
Remove miniasm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove miniasm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge miniasm
Dependencies
miniasm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install miniasm
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.