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Installation notes for legacy blast version 2.2.26 - Oct 30, 2011

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Prerequisites

None

Installation

  1. $ ver="2.2.26"
  2. $ cd /programinstallers/
  3. $ wget -N ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/release/LATEST/blast-${ver}-x64-linux.tar.gz
  4. $ wget -N ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/release/$ver/wwwblast-${ver}-x64-linux.tar.gz
  5. $ cd /usr/local/bin/
  6. $ tar -zxvf /programinstallers/blast-${ver}-x64-linux.tar.gz
  7. Make a version-independent symlink
    $ ln -s blast-$ver legacyblast
  8. Add to default PATH for all users
    $ sudo nano /etc/profile
    ...
    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/legacyblast/bin"
    ...