hi
i am trying to install picard tools in my system
i tried installing and older version picardtools-1.128 simply by downloading it https://github.com/broadinstitute/picard/releases/tag/1.128 which didnt worked
so i downloaded latest release and gave the command as follows : https://github.com/broadinstitute/picard cd picard/ ./gradlew shadowJar
but after this command i am getting the followin error.
uhail@suhail-HP-Notebook:~/picard$ ./gradlew shadowJar
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
Where: Build file '/home/suhail/picard/build.gradle' line: 55
What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating root project 'picard'.
Cannot invoke method getURLs() on null object
Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
BUILD FAILED
Total time: 1.014 secs
i ahve tried installing older version picardtools-1.128 moved it to another directory and given the path but when executed the command it didnt worked too. for this package i used following commands: chmod 755* (after goint in the directory) cd .. cp -r picard ~/software_library/ ln -sf ~/software_library/picard/picard.jar ~/software_library/bin/picard
but when executed : suhail@suhail-HP-Notebook:~/Desktop/data/FAstq$ picard MarkDuplicates I=output.sort.bam O=output_marked.sort.bam M=picard_info.txt REMOVE_DUPLICATES=true AS=true bash: /usr/bin/picard: No such file or directory
kindly help !!!!
it will be appreciated if somebody can just guide me with the installation commands as like many others i am new to ngs data analysis . help will be appreciated . thank you
what "it didn't worked" means ???
it didnt worked means as follows :
i ahve tried installing older version picardtools-1.128 moved it to another directory and given the path but when executed the command it didnt worked too. for this package i used following commands: chmod 755* (after goint in the directory) cd .. cp -r picard ~/software_library/ ln -sf ~/software_library/picard/picard.jar ~/software_library/bin/picard
but when executed : suhail@suhail-HP-Notebook:~/Desktop/data/FAstq$ picard MarkDuplicates I=output.sort.bam O=output_marked.sort.bam M=picard_info.txt REMOVE_DUPLICATES=true AS=true bash: /usr/bin/picard: No such file or directory
see my answer below
Futhermore:
means you have a basic $PATH problem...