Information about the package, samtools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The samtools package is designed for, Tools for nucleotide sequence alignments in the SAM format.
Package Name:
samtools
Summary:
Tools for nucleotide sequence alignments in the SAM format
Description:
SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) is a flexible generic format for storing nucleotide sequence alignment. SAM Tools provide various utilities for manipulating alignments in the SAM format, including sorting, merging, indexing and generating alignments in a per-position format.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.1.18
Release:
2.el6
Size:
421 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the samtools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install samtools
This command will install samtools on the server.
yum remove samtools
This command will un-install samtools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove samtools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove samtools
This command will un-install samtools 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 samtools when using the -y flag.
yum update samtools
This command will update samtools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove samtools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update samtools
This command will update samtools 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 samtools when using the -y flag.
yum info samtools
This command will show you core information about the samtools package.
yum deplist samtools
This command will show you the dependencies for samtools. 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 samtools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on samtools. 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.