How to Install and Uninstall picard-tools Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 25,2024

1. Install "picard-tools" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install picard-tools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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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

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


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: picard-tools
Priority: optional
Section: universe/science
Installed-Size: 2720
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: all
Version: 1.113-2
Depends: default-jre | java6-runtime, libsam-java (>= 1.113-2), python:any (>= 2.6.6-7~), libjbzip2-java, libcofoja-java, libcommons-jexl2-java
Suggests: python, r-base-core
Filename: pool/universe/p/picard-tools/picard-tools_1.113-2_all.deb
Size: 648502
MD5sum: a609ef6932e91c7969a9ad9dd6b090b5
SHA1: 4d3333c92443e63aa3ba96426f6f6c24f6113fc7
SHA256: ecb015318c58978186eb9746994fa1ee2e9f8efc96006b516f08ca34b51ed17a
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:
BamToBfq IlluminaBasecallsToSam
BuildBamIndex MarkDuplicates
CalculateHsMetrics MeanQualityByCycle
CleanSam MergeBamAlignment
CollectAlignmentSummaryMetrics MergeSamFiles
CollectGcBiasMetrics NormalizeFasta
CollectInsertSizeMetrics QualityScoreDistribution
CollectRnaSeqMetrics ReplaceSamHeader
CompareSAMs RevertSam
CreateSequenceDictionary SamFormatConverter
ExtractIlluminaBarcodes SamToFastq
EstimateLibraryComplexity SortSam
FastqToSam ValidateSamFile
FixMateInformation ViewSam
Description-md5: 9fca02e474489c87bff2540151f15379
Homepage: http://picard.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu