Step 3: Extract the Tarball - pb-dyim/SMRT-Analysis GitHub Wiki

Extract the tarball to its final destination - this creates a smrtanalysis-1.4.0/ directory. Be sure to use the tarball appropriate to your system - Ubuntu or CentOS.

Note: You need to run these commands as sudo if you do not have permission to write to the install folder. If the extracted folder is not owned by the user performing the installation (/opt is typically owned by root), change the ownership of the folder and all its contents.

Example: To change permissions within /opt:

sudo chown -R <thisuser>:<thisgroup> smrtanalysis-1.4.0

We recommend deploying to /opt:

tar -C /opt -xvvzf <tarball_name>.tgz

We also recommend creating a symbolic link to /opt/smrtanalysis-1.4.0 with /opt/smrtanalysis:

ln -s /opt/smrtanalysis-1.4.0 /opt/smrtanalysis

This enables subsequent upgrades to be transparent with a change in the symbolic link to the upgraded tarball directory.