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Installation notes for Pilon version 1.21

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Prerequisites

java

Installation

1. $ ver="1.21"
2. $ cd /programinstallers/
3. $ wget -N https://github.com/broadinstitute/pilon/releases/download/v$ver/pilon-$ver.jar
4. $ cd /usr/local/bin/
5. $ sudo cp -puv /programinstallers/pilon-$ver.jar .
6. Create a version-independent symlink
   $ sudo ln -s pilon-$ver.jar pilon.jar
7. Create a launcher script
   $ sudo nano pilon

   #!/bin/bash
   java -Xmx64G -jar /usr/local/bin/pilon.jar $@

8. $ sudo chmod +x pilon