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Quick installation of fastqc:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: fastqc
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install fastqc
Package Details | |
| Package: | fastqc |
| Version: | 0.11.5+dfsg-4 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/ |
| Description: | quality control for high throughput sequence data FastQC aims to provide a simple way to do some quality control checks on raw sequence data coming from high throughput sequencing pipelines. It provides a modular set of analyses which you can use to give a quick impression of whether your data has any problems of which you should be aware before doing any further analysis. . The main functions of FastQC are * Import of data from BAM, SAM or FastQ files (any variant) * Providing a quick overview to tell you in which areas there may be problems * Summary graphs and tables to quickly assess your data * Export of results to an HTML based permanent report * Offline operation to allow automated generation of reports without running the interactive application |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 16.10 |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/science |
How to install fastqc on Ubuntu 16.10?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 16.10 on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If fastqc is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L fastqc' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L fastqc dpkg-query: package 'fastqc' is not installed Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing fastqc:
After system update use the following command to install fastqc:
sudo apt-get install fastqc
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 16.10 Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove fastqc from Ubuntu 16.10?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the fastqc from Ubuntu 16.10. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the fastqc following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove fastqc
Following command is used to remove the fastqc package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove fastqc
This will remove fastqc and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing fastqc with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge fastqc
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove fastqc
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with fastqc package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
