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Installation notes for plink versions 1.07 and 1.90 beta 3.44 161201 Nov. 17, 2016

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Prerequisites

None

Installation version 1.90

1. $ ver="161201"
2. $ cd /programinstallers/
3. $ wget -N https://www.cog-genomics.org/static/bin/plink$ver/plink_linux_x86_64.zip
4. $ mv plink_linux_x86_64.zip plink_${ver}_linux_x86_64.zip
5. $ mkdir /usr/local/bin/plink_$ver
6. $ cd /usr/local/bin
7. $ unzip /programinstallers/plink_${ver}_linux_x86_64.zip
8. Make a version-independent symlink
   $ ln -s plink_$ver plink
9. Add to default PATH for all users
   $ sudo nano /etc/profile
   …
   PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/plink"
   …

Installation version 1.07

1. $ ver="1.07"
2. $ cd /programinstallers/
3. $ wget -N http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/~purcell/plink/dist/plink-${ver}-x86_64.zip
4. $ unzip plink-${ver}-x86_64.zip
5. $ cd plink-${ver}-x86_64
6. $ cp -puv gPLINK.jar /usr/local/bin/
7. Binary for the old version will be available as plink-1.07
   $ cp -puv plink /usr/local/bin/plink/plink-$ver
8. Make a launcher
   $ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/Bioinformatics/plink.desktop
9. Add this text:
   

   #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
   
   [Desktop Entry]
   Version=1.0
   Type=Application
   Terminal=false
   Exec=java -jar /usr/local/bin/gPLINK.jar
   Path=/usr/local/bin/
   Name=plink
   Comment=Whole genome association analysis toolset
   Icon=/
   Categories=Bioinformatics