How to install gdc-client in Ubnutu

Question

[pxf109]

The instruction from the website, it is too confuse for me. I really hope someone can help me. Thank you.

[SES]

There is no way we can help without knowing what website you are referring to and what the error is.

[SES]

The point of this comment was to encourage OP to provide a minimum of details so we are not reduced to doing web searches for people. Obviously we can all do that, but the idea is to help with the issue and knowing what that is will save everyone a lot of time. It will also focus the answers and promote higher quality discussions.

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

Following should be all you need

https://gdc.cancer.gov/files/public/file/gdc-client_v1.6.1_Ubuntu_x64.zip
unzip gdc-client_v1.6.1_Ubuntu_x64.zip
./gdc-client (to verify that program works)

Next step is optional. You could copy the client to a directory in your $PATH or to the location below (if it exists on your computer)

cp -pi ./gdc-client /usr/local/bin (if this does not work)
sudo cp -pi ./gdc-client /usr/local/bin

Edited (03/24/2022) to include link for the latest client.

Answer 2

[mbk0asis]

Check this site!

https://gdc.nci.nih.gov/access-data/gdc-data-transfer-tool

Answer 3

[neelablore]

Check this link

Installgdc

Answer 4

[Vanish007]

Genomax2 gave a good answer

I don't quite know where your error is, but check and make sure you are also in the correct operating system. If you are not in fact using Ubuntu and have Linux, you might have to build the client from the source code (download the source code from the GitHub website: https://github.com/NCI-GDC/gdc-client) and then build with Python.

Answer 5

[Ömer An]

conda install -c bioconda gdc-client

Answer 6

[prehensilecode]

Following the gdc-client build instructions may give an error in building lxml, one of the requirements. I have some instructions on how to work around that issue to successfully build gdc-client: