Installing GenomeTools

Procedure

1. Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.
2. Download the installation package.

   cd /path/to/LTR_retriever
   wget http://genometools.org/pub/genometools-1.6.2.tar.gz
   tar xvf genometools-1.6.2.tar.gz

3. Go to the installation directory and perform the compilation and installation.

   cd genometools-1.6.2/
   make cairo=0

4. Load the environment variable.

   export PATH=/path/to/LTR_retriever/genometools-1.6.2/bin:$PATH