How to Install and Uninstall fastaq Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "fastaq" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install fastaq on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall fastaq on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                fastaq
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fastaq package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: fastaq
Priority: optional
Section: universe/science
Installed-Size: 187
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: all
Version: 3.11.1-2
Depends: python3:any (>= 3.3.2-2~), samtools
Filename: pool/universe/f/fastaq/fastaq_3.11.1-2_all.deb
Size: 45688
MD5sum: bde2f493accf1bc509ff878138eccdb1
SHA1: ea1dd972d19d681fff16d8e22348ac09ea917182
SHA256: 5cb01f63d3b1965886620e0c0f17a1653bfb4a4586507ed3a8604fa1f9e3ee77
Description-en: FASTA and FASTQ file manipulation tools
Fastaq represents a diverse collection of scripts that perform useful and
common FASTA/FASTQ manipulation tasks, such as filtering, merging, splitting,
sorting, trimming, search/replace, etc. Input and output files can be gzipped
(format is automatically detected) and individual Fastaq commands can be piped
together.
Description-md5: 87737379b65cd806e7ab8b37901b7e08
Homepage: https://github.com/sanger-pathogens/Fastaq
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu