# Installation

Tracy is available as a Bioconda package, as a pre-compiled statically linked binary from Tracy's github release page, as a singularity container SIF file or as a minimal Docker container.

# Installation from Source

To build Tracy from source you need some build essentials and the Boost libraries, i.e. for Ubuntu:

apt install \
    build-essential g++ \
    cmake \
    git-all \
    liblzma-dev \
    zlib1g-dev \
    libbz2-dev \
    liblzma-dev \
    libboost-date-time-dev \
    libboost-program-options-dev \
    libboost-system-dev \
    libboost-filesystem-dev \
    libboost-iostreams-dev

Once you have installed these system libraries you can compile and link Tracy.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/gear-genomics/tracy.git
cd tracy/
make all
make install
./bin/tracy -h

# Installation for Mac OSX

To build Tracy from source you need some system libraries.

brew install \
     cmake \
     zlib \
     readline \
     xz \
     bzip2 \
     gsl \
     libtool \
     pkg-config \
     boost

For Mac OSX you also often need to set the library path to HTSlib.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/gear-genomics/tracy.git
cd tracy/
make all
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/src/htslib/
./src/tracy -h

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