Installation

There are essentially three ways to install NCBI Mass Sequence Downloader:

  1. Get the latest release binaries.
    • Just uncompress the file for your OS anywhere you like, and double click the executable file. Everything is wrapped up and ready to go.
  2. Get the latest source code release.
    • This requires python (2 or 3) for the CLI version. PyQt5 is further required for the GUI version.
    • Just uncompress the tarball (tar xvfJ NCBI_Mass_Sequence_Downloader_Linux_x86_64-vX.X.tar.xz where X.X is the version number) into any directory you like, cd into the newly created directory and run the program as described in the usage and testing sections.
  3. To get the current development version, you must clone the git repository.
    • This requires that you have "git" installed in your machine.
    • Clone the repository like this: git clone https://github.com/StuntsPT/NCBI_Mass_Downloader.git
    • Afterwards, do cd NCBI_Mass_Downloader and run the program as described in the usage and testing sections.

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