How To Install vcflength on Fedora 34

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 libvcflib-tools

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install libvcflib-tools

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

What is vcflength and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 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 vcflength on Fedora 34. 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 vcflength on Fedora 34 using dnf

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

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install vcflength using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libvcflib-tools

Install vcflength on Fedora 34 using yum

Because vcflength is available in Fedora 34’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 vcflength package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvcflib-tools

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

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update libvcflib-tools

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade libvcflib-tools

How to Upgrade vcflength on Fedora 34 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 libvcflib-tools

How To remove vcflength from Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libvcflib-tools

Extra info and code examples

The Variant Call Format (VCF) is a flat-file, tab-delimited textual format intended to concisely describe reference-indexed variations between individuals. VCF provides a common interchange format for the description of variation in individuals and populations of samples, and has become the defacto standard reporting format for a wide array of genomic variant detectors. vcflib provides methods to manipulate and interpret sequence variation as it can be described by VCF. It is both: * an API for parsing and operating on records of genomic variation as it can be described by the VCF format, * and a collection of command-line utilities for executing complex manipulations on VCF files. This package contains several tools using the library.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install vcflength using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the vcflength from Fedora 34.

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