How To Install soapdenovo on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install soapdenovo
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is soapdenovo
soapdenovo is:
SOAPdenovo is a novel short-read assembly method that can build a de novo draft assembly for the human-sized genomes. The program is specially designed to assemble Illumina GA short reads.
It creates new opportunities for building reference sequences and carrying out accurate analyses of unexplored genomes in a cost effective way.
This version is not maintained anymore, consider using soapdenovo2.
There are three methods to install soapdenovo
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 soapdenovo Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install soapdenovo
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install soapdenovo
Install soapdenovo Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install soapdenovo
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install soapdenovo
Install soapdenovo 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 soapdenovo
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install soapdenovo
How To Uninstall soapdenovo on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the soapdenovo
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove soapdenovo
Uninstall soapdenovo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall soapdenovo
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove soapdenovo
Remove soapdenovo Configurations and Data
To remove soapdenovo
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge soapdenovo
Remove soapdenovo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove soapdenovo
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge soapdenovo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install soapdenovo
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.