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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"
   ...