Compiling kallisto from source on a Rock64

  1. Install automake, autoconf and libhdf5-dev with sudo apt install automake, sudo apt install autoconf and sudo apt install hdf5-dev. You may have to remove a dpkg lock with sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock.
  2. Download, compile and install cmake by following the instructions on the cmake website.
  3. Download the kallisto source from https://pachterlab.github.io/kallisto/download.
  4. Gunzip and untar the source code file.
  5. Navigate to the source code directory and type autoreconf ext/htslib/.
  6. Create a new folder called build: mkdir build.
  7. Navigate into the build directory and type cmake ...
  8. Then type make followed by sudo make install to place kallisto in /usr/local/bin.