How To Install nanopolish on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nanopolish
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is nanopolish
nanopolish is:
Nanopolish uses a signal-level hidden Markov model for consensus calling of nanopore genome sequencing data. It can perform signal-level analysis of Oxford Nanopore sequencing data. Nanopolish can calculate an improved consensus sequence for a draft genome assembly, detect base modifications, call SNPs and indels with respect to a reference genome and more.
There are three methods to install nanopolish
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 nanopolish Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nanopolish
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nanopolish
Install nanopolish Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nanopolish
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nanopolish
Install nanopolish 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 nanopolish
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nanopolish
How To Uninstall nanopolish on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the nanopolish
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nanopolish
Uninstall nanopolish And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nanopolish
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nanopolish
Remove nanopolish Configurations and Data
To remove nanopolish
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nanopolish
Remove nanopolish configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nanopolish
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nanopolish
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nanopolish
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.