centos and bowtie2

Question

[doramora]

Hi! Have you ever used Centos 7?(or other versions of Centos) I wanted to install bowtie2 on it but it writes an error every time i use "sudo yum install bowtie2" it writes, that it can't find bowtie2, but i've already got tbb-devel.x86_64 please, help, if you have ever worked with Centos, after Ubuntu a server based on centos scares me (cause i have no programmes on it)

[GenoMax]

Please consider using Conda to do this install (use directions here: Creating workflows with snakemake and conda ) . You can install programs in your own directory without having to use sudo.

Answer 1

[5heikki]

Bowtie2 isn't present in any CentOS 7 repo. That's why yum says that it can't be found. Why do you think tbb-devel has anything to do with this? It's only relevant if you want to compile Bowtie2 from source. Just download the latest release from Bowtie2 github and make your $PATH aware of the binaries. Using CentOS isn't that different to using Ubuntu or any other sensible Linux distro..

[doramora]

sorry, but after downloading it still can't work in both of this ways:

sudo yum install bowtie2

sudo yum install bowtie2-2.3.5-linux-x86_64

maybe i can't understand the right way of writing path on centos thank you

[5heikki]

It's not available in any CentOS 7 repo, thus you cannot install it with yum. Just follow the instructions at Bowtie2 github. If you don't understand what some term like $PATH means, then spend some time with google..

[doramora]

ok. my fault. thank you