How To Install soapdenovo2 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install soapdenovo2
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is soapdenovo2
soapdenovo2 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.
There are three methods to install soapdenovo2
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 soapdenovo2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install soapdenovo2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install soapdenovo2
Install soapdenovo2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install soapdenovo2
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install soapdenovo2
Install soapdenovo2 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 soapdenovo2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install soapdenovo2
How To Uninstall soapdenovo2 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the soapdenovo2
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove soapdenovo2
Uninstall soapdenovo2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall soapdenovo2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove soapdenovo2
Remove soapdenovo2 Configurations and Data
To remove soapdenovo2
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge soapdenovo2
Remove soapdenovo2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove soapdenovo2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge soapdenovo2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install soapdenovo2
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.