How To Install minimac4 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install minimac4
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is minimac4
minimac4 is:
Minimac4 is a lower memory and more computationally efficient implementation of “minimac2/3”. It is an algorithm for genotypic imputation that works on phased genotypes (say from MaCH).
Minimac4 is designed to handle very large reference panels in a more computationally efficient way with no loss of accuracy. This algorithm analyzes only the unique sets of haplotypes in small genomic segments, thereby saving on time-complexity, computational memory but no loss in degree of accuracy.
There are three methods to install minimac4
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install minimac4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install minimac4
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install minimac4
Install minimac4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install minimac4
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install minimac4
Install minimac4 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 minimac4
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install minimac4
How To Uninstall minimac4 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the minimac4
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove minimac4
Uninstall minimac4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall minimac4
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove minimac4
Remove minimac4 Configurations and Data
To remove minimac4
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge minimac4
Remove minimac4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove minimac4
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge minimac4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install minimac4
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.