How To Install rampler on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rampler
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is rampler
rampler is:
Standalone module for sampling genomic sequences. It supports two modes, random subsampling of sequencer data to a desired depth (given the reference length) and file splitting to desired size in bytes.
Rampler takes as first input argument a file in FASTA/FASTQ format which can be compressed with gzip. The rest of input parameters depend on the mode of operation. The output is stored into a file(s) which is in the same format as the input file but uncompressed.
There are three methods to install rampler
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rampler Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rampler
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rampler
Install rampler Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rampler
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rampler
Install rampler 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 rampler
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rampler
How To Uninstall rampler on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the rampler
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rampler
Uninstall rampler And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rampler
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rampler
Remove rampler Configurations and Data
To remove rampler
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rampler
Remove rampler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rampler
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rampler
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rampler
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.