How To Install pbalign-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pbalign-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is pbalign-doc
pbalign-doc is:
pbalign aligns PacBio reads to reference sequences, filters aligned reads according to user-specific filtering criteria, and converts the output to either the SAM format or PacBio Compare HDF5 (e.g., .cmp.h5) format.
pbalign is part of the SMRTAnalysis suite. This package contains its documentation
There are three methods to install pbalign-doc 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 pbalign-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pbalign-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pbalign-doc
Install pbalign-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pbalign-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pbalign-doc
Install pbalign-doc 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 pbalign-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pbalign-doc
How To Uninstall pbalign-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the pbalign-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pbalign-doc
Uninstall pbalign-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pbalign-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pbalign-doc
Remove pbalign-doc Configurations and Data
To remove pbalign-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pbalign-doc
Remove pbalign-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pbalign-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pbalign-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pbalign-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
