How To Install transrate-tools on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install transrate-tools on Debian 9.

What is transrate-tools

transrate-tools is:

Transrate is a library and command-line tool for quality assessment of de-novo transcriptome assemblies.

This package provides command line tools used by transrate to process BAM files.

There are three methods to install transrate-tools on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install transrate-tools Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install transrate-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install transrate-tools

Install transrate-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install transrate-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install transrate-tools

Install transrate-tools 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install transrate-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install transrate-tools

How To Uninstall transrate-tools on Debian 9

To uninstall only the transrate-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove transrate-tools

Uninstall transrate-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall transrate-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove transrate-tools

Remove transrate-tools Configurations and Data

To remove transrate-tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge transrate-tools

Remove transrate-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove transrate-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge transrate-tools

Dependencies

transrate-tools have the following dependencies:

• libbamtools2.4.0
• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• transrate-tools website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install transrate-tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.