Cannot install salmon 1.3.0 on ubuntu on windows 10

[S Chhabra]

Hello,

I am new to RNA-seq data analysis and I am trying to install the latest version of salmon (1.3.0) on Ubuntu on Windows 10.

When I run sudo command to install salmon with the command:

``sudo apt-get install -y salmon``

and check the version

``salmon --version``

I get

salmon 0.12.0

I tried to download the binary file "salmon-1.3.0_linux_x86_64.tar.gz" from release page and decompress like so:

``tar xzvf salmon-1.3.0_linux_x86_64.tar.gz``

it decompresses the files and I see `bin` and `lib` directories. I then placed the bin directory file in my PATH using command ''PATH=$PATH:/mnt/c/Users/----/RNAseq/salmon-latest_linux_x86_64/bin/salmon.bin``

Now when I run

``salmon -h``

I get

Command 'salmon' not found, but can be installed with:

apt install salmon

Can anyone suggest a way to fix this issue? I will be analyzing Bacillus subtilis data, is there any downside of running the analysis on v0.12.0?

Thanks,

Shivani