We're only targeting Ubuntu 14.04 (at the moment).
You need root.
Do something like this:
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# Update & install minimum requirements
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git build-essential python-pip python-dev openjdk-7-jre unzip zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libfreetype6-dev libfreetype6 libpng-dev pkg-config libcairo2-dev
sudo cpan -i JSON
sudo cpan -i Cairo
sudo cpan -i Statistics::PCA
sudo perl -MCPAN -e "CPAN::Shell->notest('install', 'List::MoreUtils')"
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# Install linuxbrew & tap recipes
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git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew.git ~/.linuxbrew
export PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"
export MANPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/man:$MANPATH"
export INFOPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/info:$INFOPATH"
echo '' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export MANPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/man:$MANPATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export INFOPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/info:$INFOPATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo '' >> ~/.bashrcbrew tap homebrew/science
brew tap chapmanb/cbl
brew tap tseemann/homebrew-bioinformatics-linux
brew tap mscook/BanzaiNGS
brew install Banzai