Getting the SRA Toolkit
The SRA toolkit is available in the form of pre-built executable binaries or in source code format.
Windows
NCBI does not support the download and building from source for the Windows operating system as Windows is not usually configured for
building programs and when it is there is little standardization of what external libraries are available.
Linux and Mac
NCBI is fully tested on both of these platforms.
Other platforms
NCBI does not officially support other platforms and con not offer support.
Installation from Binaries
Installing from Source
Getting the Source
From NCBI (link again)
From Other Repositories - Debian - who are they? What are the repositories?
Configuring the build system
Building
Installation via Make