redhat versus ubuntu

[cmccabe]

I am being asked to use RHEL red hat instead of ubuntu. Are the commands for bedTools, samtools, etc the same. I know the licensing is different, but are the package mangers/repositories the same?
That is will sudo apt-get still be used? Thank you .

[HESmith]

The commands for NGS software are the same. You have different options for package management: yum and rpm are typical.

[cmccabe]

So,

 sudo apt-get install gcc

would be

 yum group list then sudo yum group install "Development Tools"

 sudo apt-get install bedtools

would be

 sudo yum install BEDTools

Thank you .

[HESmith]

Google 'Redhat Package Management tutorial' if you want to understand what you're doing, as opposed to asking the community every time you have a question.

[cmccabe]

Thank you .

[sklages]

You may also want to consider installing the bio software from scratch. This way you have always the latest versions installed (or at least the versions you want) and it makes you pretty independent from the linux distribution. This lets you use whatever linux distribution you like or whatever linux distribution is used in your institute/environment.

Just my 2p :-)

[cmccabe]

Thank you very much, I appreciate it .