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Installation notes for Circos version 0.64

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Prerequisites

• $ sudo apt-get install libgd-dev libgd-perl
• $ sudo cpan Clone Config::General List::MoreUtils Math::Bezier Math::Round Params::Validate Regexp::Common Readonly Font:TTF::Font Math::VecStat Set::IntSpan Text::Format Statistics::Basic SVG GD

Installation

1. $ ver="0.64"; tver="0.16-2"
2. $ cd /programinstallers/
3. $ wget -N http://circos.ca/distribution/circos-$ver.tgz
4. $ wget -N http://circos.ca/distribution/circos-tools-$tver.tgz
5. $ cd /usr/local/bin
6. $ tar -zxvf /programinstallers/circos-$ver.tgz
7. $ tar -zxvf /programinstallers/circos-tools-$tver.tgz
8. If upgrading:
   $ rm circos
   $ rm circos-tools
   
9. Make version-independent symlinks
   $ ln -s circos-$ver circos
10. $ ln -s circos-tools-$tver circos-tools
11. circos is in the default path, but circos tools are not
12. If /bin/env does not exist:
    $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/env /bin/env
13. Add to default PATH
    $ sudo nano /etc/profile
    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/circos/bin"
14. Edit default configuration to use tab as delimiter instead of any white space
    $ nano /usr/local/bin/circos-$ver/etc/housekeeping.conf
    …
    file_delim = \t
    …