How To Install samtools on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install samtools on CentOS 7.
What is samtools
SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) is a flexible generic format for storing nucleotide sequence alignment. SAM Tools provide various utilities for manipulating alignments in the SAM format, including sorting, merging, indexing and generating alignments in a per-position format.
We can use yum or dnf to install samtools on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install samtools.
Install samtools on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install samtools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install samtools
Install samtools on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install samtools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install samtools
How To Uninstall samtools on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the samtools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove samtools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install samtools on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.