How To Install ont-fast5-api on Debian 12

Learn how to install ont-fast5-api on Debian 12 with this tutorial. ont-fast5-api is simple interface to HDF5 files of the Oxford Nanopore .fast5 file format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ont-fast5-api on Debian 12.

What is ont-fast5-api

ont-fast5-api is:

Ont_fast5_api is a simple interface to HDF5 files of the Oxford Nanopore .fast5 file format.

It provides:

  • Concrete implementation of the fast5 file schema using the generic h5py library
  • Plain-english-named methods to interact with and reflect the fast5 file schema
  • Tools to convert between multi_read and single_read formats
  • Tools to compress/decompress raw data in files

There are three methods to install ont-fast5-api on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ont-fast5-api Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ont-fast5-api using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ont-fast5-api

Install ont-fast5-api Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ont-fast5-api using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ont-fast5-api

Install ont-fast5-api 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 ont-fast5-api using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ont-fast5-api

How To Uninstall ont-fast5-api on Debian 12

To uninstall only the ont-fast5-api package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ont-fast5-api

Uninstall ont-fast5-api And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ont-fast5-api and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ont-fast5-api

Remove ont-fast5-api Configurations and Data

To remove ont-fast5-api configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ont-fast5-api

Remove ont-fast5-api configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ont-fast5-api configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ont-fast5-api

Dependencies

ont-fast5-api have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ont-fast5-api package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.