How To Install samtools-test on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install samtools-test
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is samtools-test
samtools-test is:
Samtools is a set of utilities that manipulate nucleotide sequence alignments in the binary BAM format.
This package contains test files for the samtools package.
There are three methods to install samtools-test
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install samtools-test Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install samtools-test
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install samtools-test
Install samtools-test Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install samtools-test
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install samtools-test
Install samtools-test 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 samtools-test
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install samtools-test
How To Uninstall samtools-test on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the samtools-test
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove samtools-test
Uninstall samtools-test And Its Dependencies
To uninstall samtools-test
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove samtools-test
Remove samtools-test Configurations and Data
To remove samtools-test
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge samtools-test
Remove samtools-test configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove samtools-test
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge samtools-test
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install samtools-test
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.