Information about the package, bwa, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The bwa package is designed for, Burrows-Wheeler Alignment tool.
Package Name:
bwa
Summary:
Burrows-Wheeler Alignment tool
Description:
BWA is a program for aligning sequencing reads against a large reference genome (e.g. human genome). It has two major components, one for read shorter than 150bp and the other for longer reads.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.5.9
Release:
1.el6
Size:
120 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3
Control the bwa package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install bwa
This command will install bwa on the server.
yum remove bwa
This command will un-install bwa on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove bwa, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove bwa
This command will un-install bwa on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove bwa when using the -y flag.
yum update bwa
This command will update bwa to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove bwa, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update bwa
This command will update bwa to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove bwa when using the -y flag.
yum info bwa
This command will show you core information about the bwa package.
yum deplist bwa
This command will show you the dependencies for bwa. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update bwa
This command will check if there is an update waiting on bwa. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.