Advice for installation of STAR on Ubuntu 16.04 - do not use sudo apt-get install rna-star

[Clement Kent]

We installed STAR using sudo apt-get install on an Ubuntu 16.04 server and got version 2.5.0.

Genome generation went fine, but mapping failed with a segmentation fault shortly after starting.

We upgraded to the latest static build (STAR_2.5.2b) from Alexei's github site and this removed the segmentation fault problem.

So, for other Ubuntu 16.04 users, suggest you use 2.5.2b, not 2.5.0 which sudo apt-get will provide.

[Alexander Dobin]

Hi Clement,

thanks for sharing this!

In general, I always recommend to work with the latest release, as the newer release are (almost) always cleaner.

Cheers

Alex