Compilation and Installation

Procedure

1. Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.
2. Go to the installation directory and decompress the installation package.

   cd /path/to/LTR_retriever
   tar -xvf v2.9.0.tar.gz
   cd LTR_retriever-2.9.0

3. Configure the dependencies.

   vim paths

4. Add the installation directories of BLAST+, RepeatMasker, HMMER, and CD-HIT.

   BLAST+=/path/to/rmblast/rmblast_install/bin
   RepeatMasker=/path/to/RepeatMasker/RepeatMasker
   HMMER=/path/to/HMMER/bin
   CDHIT=/path/to/LTR_retriever/cdhit-4.8.1

5. Load the environment variable.

   export PATH=/path/to/LTR_retriever LTR_retriever-2.9.0:$PATH