Complete Guide: Installing fastx-toolkit on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) 2025

1. Install "fastx-toolkit" package

This tutorial shows how to install fastx-toolkit on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "fastx-toolkit" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall fastx-toolkit on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fastx-toolkit package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: fastx-toolkit
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.0.14-5
Priority: optional
Section: universe/science
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 564
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libgtextutils0v5, libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libgd-graph-perl, libperlio-gzip-perl
Filename: pool/universe/f/fastx-toolkit/fastx-toolkit_0.0.14-5_amd64.deb
Size: 115888
MD5sum: c4e9ac1b7bb3ea968159913caff2e42e
SHA1: a861f837ceb9f25747c27dae380551aca9baf2df
SHA256: 01ac369cb28f4f0409527eec731acc05d82116db34f877d90aef52266d071253
Homepage: http://hannonlab.cshl.edu/fastx_toolkit/
Description: FASTQ/A short nucleotide reads pre-processing tools
Description-md5: c236fdae23421bcca4cfe2593df40166