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Installing VCFTools on CentOS 7

Hi All,

I am fairly new to Linux CentoOS 7 and I am trying to install VCFtools. I have git and downloaded the package:

[root@cam-vbl-ds01 ~]# git clone https://github.com/vcftools/vcftools.git

Cloning into 'vcftools'...

remote: Counting objects: 445, done.

remote: Total 445 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 445

Receiving objects: 100% (445/445), 736.51 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (190/190), done.

but now I am having issues installing VCFtools. Below is my error message when running the first command according to the getting started page for VCFtools:

[root@cam-vbl-ds01 ~]# cd vcftools/

[root@cam-vbl-ds01 vcftools]# ./autogen.sh

./autogen.sh: line 3: autoreconf: command not found

Can you please help me with this? Thank you in advance.

Sara

software error

Can you check if the autoconf package is installed? If not present install it. Some directions here.

Thank you! I just had a rdp of Linux installed for me - nothing else was setup. I am installing the development tools now. I was able to autoconf and it now looks like I need the zlib package:

configure: error: Package requirements (zlib) were not met:

No package 'zlib' found

Where would I best find that package? Thank you!

Find and install zlib-devel package for Cent OS.

I tried to run the program but it looks like it may not like my vcf file:

--vcf<all_sample.vcf>

bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

I assume this means the format of the file I received is not correct?

You should post this as a new question since it is not related to the original one you had posted. Provide the full command line (you can obfuscate file names/paths if you don't want to include real ones).

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Thank you very much for your help. I was able to continue the installation process after installing zlib-devel.

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