NOTE: As of the 11.10 release of Ubuntu, there is a .deb package for GBrowse (it’s usable on Debian machines as well, but I don’t know the details of what repository needs to be activated to get GBrowse via apt-get on Debian).
ANOTHER NOTE: the current version of GBrowse in that deb package is fairly old (2.38 versus the current 2.55); below I’ll outline using apt-get to get all of the prerequisites for GBrowse but use cpan to install GBrowse.
To install GBrowse on a recent Ubuntu distribution, just do this:
sudo apt-get install gbrowse gbrowse-calign gbrowse-data libbio-samtools-perl apache2 libapache2-mod-fcgid
sudo a2enmod headers
sudo a2enmod cgid
sudo service apache2 restart
And then point your browser at http://localhost/gbrowse2.
The content below will be left in place for older distributions.
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
If you execute this command:
sudo apt-get install gbrowse
You’ll get a list of all of the required packages that GBrowse wants to install, like this (but hit N when asked if you want to continue!):
amap-align bedtools bioperl bioperl-run bowtie bwa
infernal javascript-common kalign libace-perl libalgorithm-c3-perl
libalgorithm-munkres-perl libapache-dbi-perl libapache2-mod-perl2
libapache2-reload-perl libarray-compare-perl libb-hooks-endofscope-perl
libbio-asn1-entrezgene-perl libbio-graphics-perl libbio-perl-perl
libbio-perl-run-perl libbio-scf-perl libbit-vector-perl libbsd-resource-perl
libcarp-clan-perl libcgi-session-perl libclass-c3-perl libclass-c3-xs-perl
libclass-load-perl libclass-load-xs-perl libconvert-binary-c-perl
libdata-optlist-perl libdata-stag-perl libdate-calc-perl libdate-calc-xs-perl
libdate-manip-perl libdbd-sqlite3-perl libdevel-globaldestruction-perl
libdevel-partialdump-perl libdevel-symdump-perl libeval-closure-perl
libfreezethaw-perl libgd-svg-perl libgraph-perl libgraphviz-perl
libheap-perl libjcode-pm-perl libjs-prototype libjs-scriptaculous
liblist-moreutils-perl libmath-derivative-perl libmath-spline-perl
libmldbm-perl libmodule-runtime-perl libmoose-perl libmro-compat-perl
libnamespace-clean-perl libole-storage-lite-perl libpackage-deprecationmanager-perl
libpackage-stash-perl libpackage-stash-xs-perl libparams-classify-perl
libparams-util-perl libparse-recdescent-perl libpostscript-perl libset-scalar-perl
libsort-naturally-perl libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl libspreadsheet-writeexcel-perl
libstaden-read1 libstatistics-descriptive-perl libsub-exporter-perl
libsub-identify-perl libsub-install-perl libsvg-graph-perl libsvg-perl
libtree-dagnode-perl libtry-tiny-perl libunicode-map-perl libvariable-magic-perl
libxml-dom-perl libxml-dom-xpath-perl libxml-filter-buffertext-perl
libxml-libxml-perl libxml-libxslt-perl libxml-perl libxml-regexp-perl
libxml-sax-writer-perl libxml-xpathengine-perl libyaml-syck-perl samtools
sim4 wise wwwconfig-common libjson-perl libterm-readkey-perl libcapture-tiny-perl
libmodule-build-perl apache2 build-essential
You can copy this list of packages and place them in a text editor and remove the new lines. In vim, I just hit “J” until the list is one large line. IF gbrowse is in that list, remove it. Then I can take that list and paste it into a long apt-get command:
sudo apt-get install amap-align bedtools bioperl bioperl-run bowtie bwa infernal javascript-common kalign libace-perl libalgorithm-c3-perl libalgorithm-munkres-perl libapache-dbi-perl libapache2-mod-perl2 libapache2-reload-perl libarray-compare-perl libb-hooks-endofscope-perl libbio-asn1-entrezgene-perl libbio-graphics-perl libbio-perl-perl libbio-perl-run-perl libbio-scf-perl libbit-vector-perl libbsd-resource-perl libcarp-clan-perl libcgi-session-perl libclass-c3-perl libclass-c3-xs-perl libclass-load-perl libclass-load-xs-perl libconvert-binary-c-perl libdata-optlist-perl libdata-stag-perl libdate-calc-perl libdate-calc-xs-perl libdate-manip-perl libdbd-sqlite3-perl libdevel-globaldestruction-perl libdevel-partialdump-perl libdevel-symdump-perl libeval-closure-perl libfreezethaw-perl libgd-svg-perl libgraph-perl libgraphviz-perl libheap-perl libjcode-pm-perl libjs-prototype libjs-scriptaculous liblist-moreutils-perl libmath-derivative-perl libmath-spline-perl libmldbm-perl libmodule-runtime-perl libmoose-perl libmro-compat-perl libnamespace-clean-perl libole-storage-lite-perl libpackage-deprecationmanager-perl libpackage-stash-perl libpackage-stash-xs-perl libparams-classify-perl libparams-util-perl libparse-recdescent-perl libpostscript-perl libset-scalar-perl libsort-naturally-perl libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl libspreadsheet-writeexcel-perl libstaden-read1 libstatistics-descriptive-perl libsub-exporter-perl libsub-identify-perl libsub-install-perl libsvg-graph-perl libsvg-perl libtree-dagnode-perl libtry-tiny-perl libunicode-map-perl libvariable-magic-perl libxml-dom-perl libxml-dom-xpath-perl libxml-filter-buffertext-perl libxml-libxml-perl libxml-libxslt-perl libxml-perl libxml-regexp-perl libxml-sax-writer-perl libxml-xpathengine-perl libyaml-syck-perl samtools sim4 wise wwwconfig-common libjson-perl libterm-readkey-perl libcapture-tiny-perl libmodule-build-perl apache2 build-essential
Then you can use the cpan shell to install GBrowse manually:
cpan
cpan> install Bio::Graphics::Browser2
This will still install a few perl modules, but it should go smoothly and quickly since most of the prerequisites will have been installed by the above apt-get command.
The information below is deprecated.
GBrowse does not have a .deb package, but many of its prerequisites are distributed in this way. This document describes how to install GBrowse on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions that use the Debian packaging system.
Install Apache and Apache-modperl
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2-dev
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2-doc
sudo apt-get install apache2-doc
Make the missing cgi-bin directory
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/cgi-bin
This is not necessary for Ubuntu 7.10, as the Apache install creates it. For previous versions of Ubuntu, this did not happen.
Install libgd
sudo apt-get install libgd2-dev
or
sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev
for Ubuntu 7.10.
Install MySQL database (optional, but recommended)
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
Install installer prereqs
sudo apt-get install libarchive-zip-perl
sudo apt-get install libarchive-tar-perl
sudo apt-get install ncftp
Get the netinstaller script from SourceForge and save it to disk as “gbrowse_netinstall.pl”. Then run:
sudo perl gbrowse_netinstall.pl
Be sure to double-check the paths that GBrowse guesses for the Apache configuration, htdocs, and cgibin directories, as these may have changed.
The script will download and install all the Perl modules on which GBrowse depends. During the installation process, some of these modules will ask you questions. You can almost always accept the defaults. If you change your mind later, you can simply run the script again.
When the installer is finished, you can browse the documentation and example database at http://localhost/gbrowse.
Lincoln Stein 12:36, 17 April 2007 (EDT)