How to Install and Uninstall picard-tools Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: March 15,2025

1. Install "picard-tools" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install picard-tools on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                picard-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "picard-tools" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall picard-tools on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                picard-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the picard-tools package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: picard-tools
Architecture: all
Version: 2.24.1+dfsg-1
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: 331
Depends: default-jre | java6-runtime, libpicard-java (= 2.24.1+dfsg-1)
Filename: pool/universe/p/picard-tools/picard-tools_2.24.1+dfsg-1_all.deb
Size: 308684
MD5sum: 6628f466978f9b8aec56f4672a728c0f
SHA1: 71f71c3d47dcfd7668290e4ef89ca48b7a5b1bd4
SHA256: dae329ec9e403526b2d4bb4cf95d8c060e51537bd5edd4c9d646c330f8481e45
SHA512: e598b28b4482b1b93a79f7d87ae541ae8d3edc2f3d47007df9241eacbb50820fb574601a3d8ba268cf591ea10369f726a16b0e87160c06d21baf0b478fb40b77
Homepage: http://broadinstitute.github.io/picard/
Description-en: Command line tools to manipulate SAM and BAM files
SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format is a generic format for storing
large nucleotide sequence alignments. Picard Tools includes these
utilities to manipulate SAM and BAM files:
AddCommentsToBam FifoBuffer
AddOrReplaceReadGroups FilterSamReads
BaitDesigner FilterVcf
BamIndexStats FixMateInformation
BamToBfq GatherBamFiles
BedToIntervalList GatherVcfs
BuildBamIndex GenotypeConcordance
CalculateHsMetrics IlluminaBasecallsToFastq
CalculateReadGroupChecksum IlluminaBasecallsToSam
CheckIlluminaDirectory LiftOverIntervalList
CheckTerminatorBlock LiftoverVcf
CleanSam MakeSitesOnlyVcf
CollectAlignmentSummaryMetrics MarkDuplicates
CollectBaseDistributionByCycle MarkDuplicatesWithMateCigar
CollectGcBiasMetrics MarkIlluminaAdapters
CollectHiSeqXPfFailMetrics MeanQualityByCycle
CollectIlluminaBasecallingMetrics MergeBamAlignment
CollectIlluminaLaneMetrics MergeSamFiles
CollectInsertSizeMetrics MergeVcfs
CollectJumpingLibraryMetrics NormalizeFasta
CollectMultipleMetrics PositionBasedDownsampleSam
CollectOxoGMetrics QualityScoreDistribution
CollectQualityYieldMetrics RenameSampleInVcf
CollectRawWgsMetrics ReorderSam
CollectRnaSeqMetrics ReplaceSamHeader
CollectRrbsMetrics RevertOriginalBaseQualitiesAndAddMateCigar
CollectSequencingArtifactMetrics RevertSam
CollectTargetedPcrMetrics SamFormatConverter
CollectVariantCallingMetrics SamToFastq
CollectWgsMetrics ScatterIntervalsByNs
CompareMetrics SortSam
CompareSAMs SortVcf
ConvertSequencingArtifactToOxoG SplitSamByLibrary
CreateSequenceDictionary SplitVcfs
DownsampleSam UpdateVcfSequenceDictionary
EstimateLibraryComplexity ValidateSamFile
ExtractIlluminaBarcodes VcfFormatConverter
ExtractSequences VcfToIntervalList
FastqToSam ViewSam
Description-md5: 4210c5f17f12023993b769bb2ea569bb