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    Installation

    Via Bioconda

    Varlociraptor can be best installed via Bioconda. After having Bioconda set up as outlined in the docs, you can install varlociraptor into an isolated software environment via

    conda create --name varlociraptor varlociraptor

    Then, activate the environment via

    conda activate varlociraptor

    Afterwards, varlociraptor will be available in your $PATH, such that you can issue

    varlociraptor --help

    to inspect the command line interface. In any case, make sure you have the latest stable version by comparing with what is printed by

    varlociraptor --version

    Via Cargo

    Alternatively you can install varlociraptor via the Rust package manager Cargo. For building, it needs the following dependencies (including headers):

    • zlib
    • bzip2
    • xz
    • GSL (if you have GSLv2, you need to specify --features gslv2 in the command below)
    • cmake

    Given that Cargo is installed in your system, run

    cargo install varlociraptor

    Afterwards, varlociraptor will be available in your $PATH, such that you can issue

    varlociraptor --help

    to inspect the command line interface.