How To Install nanopolish on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nanopolish on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is nanopolish
nanopolish is:
Nanopolish uses a signal-level hidden Markov model for consensus calling of nanopore genome sequencing data.
There are three methods to install nanopolish 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 nanopolish Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nanopolish using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nanopolish
Install nanopolish Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nanopolish using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nanopolish
Install nanopolish 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 nanopolish using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nanopolish
How To Uninstall nanopolish on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the nanopolish package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nanopolish
Uninstall nanopolish And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nanopolish and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nanopolish
Remove nanopolish Configurations and Data
To remove nanopolish configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nanopolish
Remove nanopolish configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nanopolish configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nanopolish
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nanopolish package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
