How To Install scythe on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install scythe
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is scythe
scythe is:
Scythe uses a Naive Bayesian approach to classify contaminant substrings in sequence reads. It considers quality information, which can make it robust in picking out 3’-end adapters, which often include poor quality bases.
There are three methods to install scythe
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 scythe Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install scythe
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install scythe
Install scythe Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install scythe
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install scythe
Install scythe 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 scythe
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install scythe
How To Uninstall scythe on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the scythe
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove scythe
Uninstall scythe And Its Dependencies
To uninstall scythe
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove scythe
Remove scythe Configurations and Data
To remove scythe
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge scythe
Remove scythe configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove scythe
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge scythe
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install scythe
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.