Installing Picard

Question

[chansik]

Hi,

I'm trying to install Picard on my Ubuntu, I can't understand the install process because I'm not familiar with java.

It seems there are two ways to install Picard. One is using git clone and the other is zip file. zip file link - https://broadinstitute.github.io/picard/ github link - https://github.com/broadinstitute/picard

But I'm in trouble with both way

1. When I unzipped zip file, how I can add path??

2. If I use git clone what should I do after

   ./gradlew shadowJar

It showed nothing but 0% configuration. (I've waited for 4hr but nothing has changed.)

Thank you.

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

just download the realease: wget -O picard.jar https://github.com/broadinstitute/picard/releases/download/2.26.2/picard.jar

and run with java: java -jar picard.jar