You may have heard or read an expression before referring to whether there is a binary or executable available for download for a particular program. I plan to add a section soon covering those differences, but for now these are examples for installing on a Mac personal computer and would need to be adjusted for other systems. Many programs have differences between which version we’d need and how we’d install them on our personal computer vs installing on a server.

This page will be an ongoing list of the installation process for any of the tools used on tutorials from this site, and they will hopefully serve as examples to help guide you through installing other things. What’s required on our end to get something working properly varies by the tool, and most that are highly used by people have excellent documentation on how to properly download and install them.

If you’re working towards more bioinformatic-leaning applications, you’re certainly also going to need to download and/or install lots of tools that don’t come standard. If you are new to this stuff and want to be able to follow the examples here more closely, be sure to familiarize yourself with what the PATH is here and to follow these instructions in order to create that directory and add it to your PATH.Īs we’ve seen in the Unix crash course and real-life examples sections, you can do some amazing things with standard Unix commands as far as manipulating plain-text files goes. The installation examples here all download and install things into a directory called ~/happy_bin.

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