How to Install and Uninstall samtools Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "samtools" package

Please follow the instructions below to install samtools on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall samtools on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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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 11 (Bullseye)

Package: samtools
Version: 1.11-1
Installed-Size: 1201
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libhts3 (>= 1.11), libncurses6 (>= 6), libtinfo6 (>= 6), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: cwltool
Breaks: bio-tradis (<= 1.4.5+dfsg-1), iva (<= 1.0.9+ds-6)
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_1.11-1_amd64.deb
Size: 544612
MD5sum: 803d77e0174e2b015c56f084e1808d33
SHA256: 8e921139726e320854c95eff7df1748b56b48562ac5b71e5d4bb0388a68e82b4