How To Install yaha on Debian 10

Learn how to install yaha on Debian 10 with this tutorial. yaha is find split-read mappings on single-end queries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yaha on Debian 10.

What is yaha

yaha is:

yaha is an open source, flexible, sensitive and accurate DNA aligner designed for single-end reads. It supports three major modes of operation:

  • The default ??Optimal Query Coverage?? (-OQC) mode reports the best set of alignments that cover the length of each query.
  • Using ??Filter By Similarity?? (-FBS), along with the best set of alignments, yaha will also output alignments that are highly similar to an alignment in the best set.
  • Finally, yaha can output all the alignments found for each query. The -OQC and -FBS modes are specifically tuned to form split read mappings that can be used to accurately identify structural variation events (deletions, duplications, insertions or inversions) between the subject query and the reference genome.

There are three methods to install yaha 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 yaha Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install yaha

Install yaha Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install yaha using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install yaha

Install yaha 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 yaha using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install yaha

How To Uninstall yaha on Debian 10

To uninstall only the yaha package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove yaha

Uninstall yaha And Its Dependencies

To uninstall yaha and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove yaha

Remove yaha Configurations and Data

To remove yaha configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge yaha

Remove yaha configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yaha

Dependencies

yaha have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install yaha package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.