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

Last updated: December 27,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "samtools" package

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


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall samtools on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: samtools
Version: 1.16.1-1
Installed-Size: 1304
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libhts3 (>= 1.16), libncurses6 (>= 6), libtinfo6 (>= 6), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: cwltool
Breaks: bio-tradis (<= 1.4.5+dfsg-1)
Description: processing sequence alignments in SAM, BAM and CRAM formats
Description-md5: 7ede2464ff1fbf70b3103067b7192874
Homepage: https://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_1.16.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 606624
MD5sum: 293f8343aff5f445781d079f0181901e
SHA256: 8e5a0d98d99a1fcacf454e13fb6d39a8db2aae9b68fd03cd4b748cf9a93e8075