How To Install arden on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install arden on Ubuntu 22.04. arden is specificity control for read alignments using an artificial reference

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install arden on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is arden

arden is:

ARDEN (Artificial Reference Driven Estimation of false positives in NGS data) is a novel benchmark that estimates error rates based on real experimental reads and an additionally generated artificial reference genome. It allows the computation of error rates specifically for a dataset and the construction of a ROC-curve. Thereby, it can be used to optimize parameters for read mappers, to select read mappers for a specific problem or also to filter alignments based on quality estimation.

There are three methods to install arden on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install arden Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install arden

Install arden Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install arden

Install arden 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 arden using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install arden

How To Uninstall arden on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove arden

Uninstall arden And Its Dependencies

To uninstall arden and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove arden

Remove arden Configurations and Data

To remove arden configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge arden

Remove arden configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge arden

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install arden package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.