How To Install unicycler_scrub 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 unicycler

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install unicycler

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

What is unicycler_scrub 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 unicycler_scrub 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 unicycler_scrub 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 unicycler_scrub using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install unicycler

Install unicycler_scrub on CentOS 8 using yum

Because unicycler_scrub 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 unicycler_scrub package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install unicycler

How to upgrade (update) a single package unicycler_scrub using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update unicycler

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade unicycler

How to Upgrade unicycler_scrub 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 unicycler

How To remove unicycler_scrub from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the unicycler_scrub package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove unicycler

Extra info and code examples

Unicycler is an assembly pipeline for bacterial genomes. It can assemble Illumina-only read sets where it functions as a SPAdes-optimiser. It can also assembly long-read-only sets (PacBio or Nanopore) where it runs a miniasm+Racon pipeline. For the best possible assemblies, give it both Illumina reads and long reads, and it will conduct a hybrid assembly.

Conclusion

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

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