Installation (original) (raw)

For the impatient

The latest source code can be downloaded from github using:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/samtools/htslib.git git clone https://github.com/samtools/bcftools.git cd bcftools

The following is optional:

autoheader && autoconf && ./configure --enable-libgsl --enable-perl-filters

make

Important In order to use the BCFtools plugins, this environment variable must be set and point to the correct location: export BCFTOOLS_PLUGINS=/path/to/bcftools/plugins

Detailed instructions