Complete Guide: Installing fastx-toolkit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2025

1. Install "fastx-toolkit" package

Please follow the guidance below to install fastx-toolkit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall fastx-toolkit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 fastx-toolkit package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: fastx-toolkit
Priority: optional
Section: universe/science
Installed-Size: 435
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.0.14-1build1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgtextutils0v5, libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libgd-graph-perl, libperlio-gzip-perl
Filename: pool/universe/f/fastx-toolkit/fastx-toolkit_0.0.14-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 87070
MD5sum: b32cd4a1234b566162f4ab9160683900
SHA1: 7e6209be91b8470d02323b5dad74134ab6dc4f93
SHA256: 52ee52cc0a52eef6de3b51e8d754b1d62af4e8df7bbe42b326480ef368691094
Description-en: FASTQ/A short nucleotide reads pre-processing tools
The FASTX-Toolkit is a collection of command line tools for preprocessing
short nucleotide reads in FASTA and FASTQ formats, usually produced by
Next-Generation sequencing machines. The main processing of such FASTA/FASTQ
files is mapping (aligning) the sequences to reference genomes or other
databases using specialized programs like BWA, Bowtie and many others.
However, it is sometimes more productive to preprocess the FASTA/FASTQ files
before mapping the sequences to the genome—manipulating the sequences to
produce better mapping results. The FASTX-Toolkit tools perform some of these
preprocessing tasks.
Description-md5: c236fdae23421bcca4cfe2593df40166
Homepage: http://hannonlab.cshl.edu/fastx_toolkit/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu