How To Install transrate-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install transrate-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install transrate-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
