How to Install and Uninstall samtools Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "samtools" package

Please follow the guidance below to install samtools on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                samtools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "samtools" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall samtools on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                samtools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the samtools package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: samtools
Version: 1.9-4
Installed-Size: 1008
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libhts2 (>= 1.9), libncurses6 (>= 6), libtinfo6 (>= 6), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: python, cwltool
Description: processing sequence alignments in SAM, BAM and CRAM formats
Description-md5: 7ede2464ff1fbf70b3103067b7192874
Homepage: http://www.htslib.org/
Tag: field::biology, field::biology:bioinformatics, implemented-in::c,
interface::commandline, network::client, protocol::ftp, protocol::http,
role::program, scope::utility, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::analysing,
use::calculating, use::filtering, works-with::biological-sequence
Section: science
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/samtools/samtools_1.9-4_amd64.deb
Size: 442720
MD5sum: 563f1a403779d5cdce79913ba5c792b1
SHA256: c5b974a752443abbc3a90f93819415bac8e6978133941a0c35cb512d63ce0d74