How To Install nencvalid.2 on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install sra-toolkit

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install sra-toolkit

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is nencvalid.2 and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install nencvalid.2 on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install nencvalid.2 on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install nencvalid.2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sra-toolkit

Install nencvalid.2 on CentOS 8 using yum

Because nencvalid.2 is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install nencvalid.2 package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sra-toolkit

How to upgrade (update) a single package nencvalid.2 using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like nencvalid.2 in this example you should use the following command:

yum update sra-toolkit

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade sra-toolkit

How to Upgrade nencvalid.2 on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update sra-toolkit

How To remove nencvalid.2 from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the nencvalid.2 package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove sra-toolkit

Extra info and code examples

Tools for reading the SRA archive, generally by converting individual runs into some commonly used format such as fastq. The textual dumpers "sra-dump" and "vdb-dump" are provided in this release as an aid in visual inspection. It is likely that their actual output formatting will be changed in the near future to a stricter, more formalized representation[s]. PLEASE DO NOT RELY UPON THE OUTPUT FORMAT SEEN IN THIS RELEASE. The "help" information will be improved in near future releases, and the tool options will become standardized across the set. More documentation will also be provided documentation on the NCBI web site. Tool options may change in the next release. Version 1 tool options will remain supported wherever possible in order to preserve operation of any existing scripts.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install nencvalid.2 using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the nencvalid.2 from CentOS 8.

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