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

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "seqtk" package

Please follow the steps below to install seqtk on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall seqtk on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: seqtk
Priority: optional
Section: universe/science
Installed-Size: 77
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Filename: pool/universe/s/seqtk/seqtk_1.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 19744
MD5sum: b8f261ba2c80045e1cd25a80d0821ada
SHA1: 6dbd6c8dc2e7fbea3d6c032d215af299fccfe06a
SHA256: e1ed2c4f1b70bc739c8dbff0a04a222a4ecddf0b11667b689fb5e6e56827791a
Description-en: Fast and lightweight tool for processing sequences in the FASTA or FASTQ format
Currently, seqtk supports quality based trimming with the phred
algorithm, converting fastq to fasta, reverse complementing sequences,
extracting or masking subsequences in regions given in a BED/name list
file, and more. It contains a subsampling module to sample exactly n
sequences or a fraction of sequences.
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Seqtk supports both fasta and fastq input files, which can be
optionally gzip compressed.
Description-md5: 308a3dd5ca3e5c5c42215a0c840a4a23
Homepage: https://github.com/lh3/seqtk
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu