How To Install murasaki-common on Debian 10

Learn how to install murasaki-common on Debian 10 with this tutorial. murasaki-common is homology detection tool across multiple large genomes (common files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install murasaki-common on Debian 10.

What is murasaki-common

murasaki-common is:

Murasaki is a scalable and fast, language theory-based homology detection tool across multiple large genomes. It enable whole-genome scale multiple genome global alignments. Supports unlimited length gapped-seed patterns and unique TF-IDF based filtering.

Murasaki is an anchor alignment software, which is

  • exteremely fast (17 CPU hours for whole Human x Mouse genome (with 40 nodes: 52 wall minutes))
  • scalable (Arbitrarily parallelizable across multiple nodes using MPI. Even a single node with 16GB of ram can handle over 1Gbp of sequence.)
  • unlimited pattern length
  • repeat tolerant
  • intelligent noise reduction

This package contains all files that are common to the single core murasaki package and the multi core murasaki-mpi package.

There are three methods to install murasaki-common on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install murasaki-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install murasaki-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install murasaki-common

Install murasaki-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install murasaki-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install murasaki-common

Install murasaki-common 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 murasaki-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install murasaki-common

How To Uninstall murasaki-common on Debian 10

To uninstall only the murasaki-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove murasaki-common

Uninstall murasaki-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall murasaki-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove murasaki-common

Remove murasaki-common Configurations and Data

To remove murasaki-common configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge murasaki-common

Remove murasaki-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove murasaki-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge murasaki-common

Dependencies

murasaki-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install murasaki-common package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.