How To Install velvet-tests on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install velvet-tests on Debian 10.
What is velvet-tests
velvet-tests 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 contains the test data to run the unit tests of Velvet, a de novo genomic assembler, that could be used as additional set of examples.
There are three methods to install velvet-tests on Debian 10. 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-tests 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-tests using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install velvet-tests
Install velvet-tests Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install velvet-tests using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install velvet-tests
Install velvet-tests 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-tests using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install velvet-tests
How To Uninstall velvet-tests on Debian 10
To uninstall only the velvet-tests package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove velvet-tests
Uninstall velvet-tests And Its Dependencies
To uninstall velvet-tests and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove velvet-tests
Remove velvet-tests Configurations and Data
To remove velvet-tests configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge velvet-tests
Remove velvet-tests configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove velvet-tests configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge velvet-tests
Dependencies
velvet-tests have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install velvet-tests package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.