How To Install velvet-long on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install velvet-long on Debian 12.
What is velvet-long
velvet-long is:
Velvet is a de novo genomic assembler specially designed for short read sequencing technologies, such as Solexa or 454, developed by Daniel Zerbino and Ewan Birney at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), near Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.
Velvet currently takes in short read sequences, removes errors then produces high quality unique contigs. It then uses paired read information, if available, to retrieve the repeated areas between contigs.
This package installs special long-mode versions of Velvet, as recommended in the Velvet tutorials.
There are three methods to install velvet-long on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install velvet-long Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install velvet-long using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install velvet-long
Install velvet-long Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install velvet-long using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install velvet-long
Install velvet-long 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 velvet-long using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install velvet-long
How To Uninstall velvet-long on Debian 12
To uninstall only the velvet-long package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove velvet-long
Uninstall velvet-long And Its Dependencies
To uninstall velvet-long and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove velvet-long
Remove velvet-long Configurations and Data
To remove velvet-long configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge velvet-long
Remove velvet-long configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove velvet-long configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge velvet-long
Dependencies
velvet-long have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install velvet-long package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
