download-ncbi-software(1)

download-ncbi-software1

Download executables from ncbi's ftp site

Usage

download-ncbi-software {[-] magic-blast | [-] datasets | [-] sra-toolkit}

Overview

download-ncbi-software downloads the requested executable(s) to the current directory if possible (i.e., only on amd64 at present).

Options

[-]magic-blast

Download magicblast and a corresponding makeblastdb.

[-]datasets

Download datasets and dataformat.

[-]sra-toolkit

Download the full SRA Toolkit (into a subdirectory). On Debian systems, the SRA Toolkit is also available via the sra-toolkit package, which supports arm64 in addition to amd64.

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

  1. 12–13

From ncbi-entrez-direct 24.0.20250523+dfsg-1+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.