ABySS installation issue

[Shreyasi]

Hello!
I have downloaded the ABySS for all platforms and extracted it to the home folder of my computer.
Now,I just cannot install ABySS correctly!
Can anyone tell me how they installed it?
ABySS directed me to download a certain C++ package which I had successfully downloaded,but I cannot run the standard abyss assembly with the ./abyss-pe command.

[GenoMax]

You need to provide some additional information. What OS you are using? Did you compile the program after downloading it (https://github.com/bcgsc/abyss#compi...-from-source)?

[Shreyasi]

You need to provide some additional information. What OS you are using? Did you compile the program after downloading it (https://github.com/bcgsc/abyss#compi...-from-source)?

I'm using Ubuntu 11.10
when I type the following command for a test read
[email protected]:~/SOFTWARES/abyss-1.5.2/bin> ./abyss-pe k=57 name=trial lib='trial' \trial='reads1.fastq reads2.fastq'
the message I get is:
ABYSS -k57 -q3 --coverage-hist=coverage.hist -s trial-bubbles.fa -o trial-1.fa reads1.fastq reads2.fastq
/bin/bash: ABYSS: command not found
make: *** [trial-1.fa] Error 127

whereas the reads are URL the link on the abyss help page
wget http://www.bcgsc.ca/platform/bioinfo...st-data.tar.gz
and the reads have been pased in the bin folder of abyss.

[GenoMax]

Command you need to use to try test data set is (from the page I linked above)

$ ./abyss-pe k=25 name=test in='test-data/reads1.fastq test-data/reads2.fastq'

If your test reads are not in "test-data" directory under 'bin' then you should use

$ ./abyss-pe k=25 name=test in='reads1.fastq reads2.fastq'

[Shreyasi]

If your test reads are not in "test-data" directory under 'bin' then you should use

$ ./abyss-pe k=25 name=test in='reads1.fastq reads2.fastq'

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and I got this message:
-bash: /abyss-pe: No such file or directory
abyss didnt get installed properly possibly.
and the packages in the link came with the abyss installation folder itself!

[Shreyasi]

and I did run compile && make.

[GenoMax]

Can you post a listing (ls -l) of the bin directory for abyss? Did you get any errors when you compiled (i.e. use make)?

[Shreyasi]

Can you post a listing (ls -l) of the bin directory for abyss? Did you get any errors when you compiled (i.e. use make)?

yes,sure!

[email protected]:~/abyss-1.5.2/bin$ ls -l
total 7220
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 975 2012-04-27 04:33 abyss-adjtodot.pl
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 6491 2014-06-03 05:03 abyss-bloom-dist.mk
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 1135 2014-06-03 05:03 abyss-bowtie
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 1192 2014-06-03 05:03 abyss-bowtie2
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 1208 2014-06-03 05:03 abyss-bwa
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 1454 2014-06-03 05:03 abyss-bwamem
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 1362 2014-06-03 05:03 abyss-bwasw
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 1997 2012-04-27 04:33 abyss-cstont
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 2536 2013-02-05 03:15 abyss-fac.pl
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 1280 2014-06-03 05:03 abyss-fatoagp
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 1482 2014-06-24 03:36 abyss-joindist
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 39 2014-06-03 05:03 abyss-kaligner
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 14905 2014-06-03 05:03 abyss-pe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 4501 2014-06-03 05:03 abyss-samtoafg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 209 2014-06-03 05:03 abyss-tabtomd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14539 2014-07-23 11:06 Makefile
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 294 2014-07-08 23:38 Makefile.am
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 14310 2014-07-10 04:37 Makefile.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 shreyasi shreyasi 3636380 2013-02-05 06:07 reads1.fastq
-rw-r--r-- 1 shreyasi shreyasi 3636380 2013-02-05 06:07 reads2.fastq

Where the executable files are highlighted in green as they should be.

[Shreyasi]

the error I get upon entering sudo apt-get install abyss is:
ro[email protected]:/home/shreyasi/abyss-1.5.2# sudo apt-get install abyss
Reading package lists... 87%
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/in.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_oneiric-updates_main_i18n_Translation-en
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
[email protected]:/home/shreyasi/abyss-1.5.2#
[email protected]:/home/shreyasi/abyss-1.5.2#
ro[email protected]:/home/shreyasi/abyss-1.5.2# sudo apt-get install abyss
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/in.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_oneiric-updates_main_i18n_Translation-en
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
[email protected]:/home/shreyasi/abyss-1.5.2#

[GenoMax]

yes,sure!

[email protected]:~/abyss-1.5.2/bin$ ls -l
total 7220

-rwxrwxrwx 1 1307 559 14905 2014-06-03 05:03 abyss-pe

-rw-r--r-- 1 shreyasi shreyasi 3636380 2013-02-05 06:07 reads1.fastq
-rw-r--r-- 1 shreyasi shreyasi 3636380 2013-02-05 06:07 reads2.fastq

Where the executable files are highlighted in green as they should be.

The relevant files are all there so I am not certain why you are getting an error about abyss-pe not found.

Can you try the following (assuming you are in the bin directory)?

$ ./abyss-pe

Does that print abyss help message to the screen?