Installing RepeatMasker

Procedure

1. Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.
2. Decompress the source package.

   tar zxvf RepeatMasker-open-4-0-7.tar.gz

3. Go to the directory generated after the decompression.

   cd RepeatMasker

4. Perform the compilation and installation.

   perl ./configure

   

   Specify the perl/rmblast/trf path as prompted. If environment variables have been loaded for the previous dependencies, the correct path can be identified by default.

5. Load the environment variable for the executable file generated in the source code root directory.

   export PATH=/path/to/repeatmasker:$PATH

6. (Optional) Register and download Repbase (http://www.girinst.org), decompress the Repbase package, and save it to the RepeatMasker/Libraries directory.
   

   Perform this operation when you need to use the Repbase database to save species data.