[Bio-linux-list] How to update mothur?
Andor J Kiss
kissaj at miamioh.edu
Tue Jan 31 07:20:26 EST 2017
You can simply download latest mothur and unzip the file. Then
navigate to the folder that the unzipped folder is in and start mothur
$ /path/to/unzipped/mothur/folder/ ./mothur
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On Tue, 2017-01-31 at 10:32 +0100, Maxime GOMMEAUX wrote:
> Dear users of Bio-Linux,
>
> I have been an enthusiastic user of the Bio-Linux distribution for
> ~2years and I appreciate it greatly.
>
> I would like, however, to update the mothur package to try their new
> clustering algorithm, included in the brand-new release 1.39.
>
> If I remember well, originally the version of mothur was 1.34 at the
> time I installed the distro. Some time later it upgraded to 1.36
> "automatically" (with the normal system updates), but it has been
> stuck
> since then.
>
> Thus, I would like to update mothur "manually", but I don't want to
> wreck my system. Remark: the Ubuntu base is still 14.04 (I have
> refused
> the 16.04 upgrade to date, but maybe I should do this first???).
>
> Thank you for any help!
>
> Maxime
>
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