How To Install ont-fast5-api on Debian 12
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:
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libstdc++6
- libzstd1
- python3
- python3
- python3-numpy
- python3-packaging
- python3-progressbar
- python3
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
.