How to Install and Uninstall bamtools Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 17,2025

You can also install and uninstall the bamtools on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "bamtools" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install bamtools on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall bamtools on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                bamtools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the bamtools package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: bamtools
Version: 2.5.2+dfsg-4
Installed-Size: 630
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libbamtools2.5.2 (>= 2.5.2+dfsg), libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libjsoncpp25 (>= 1.9.5), libstdc++6 (>= 11)
Description: toolkit for manipulating BAM (genome alignment) files
Description-md5: 8806dbb8f096fa9f1dd1e9df2a932d9a
Homepage: https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki
Tag: implemented-in::c++, role::program
Section: science
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/bamtools/bamtools_2.5.2+dfsg-4_amd64.deb
Size: 192952
MD5sum: 332e2b857e2a116ceee73a608fb84ce0
SHA256: 102ba88260b7e1ccb55187d373482f311b5d524026d9f9df59612b654ca8f695