bcl2fastq has been primarily developed and tested on CentOs 5, Illumina’s recommended
and supported platform. It may be possible to install and run bcl2fastq on other 64-bit
Linux distributions (particularly on similar distributions such as RedHat and Fedora) or
on other Unix variants, if all of the prerequisites described in this section are met.
The following software is required to run bcl2fastq; check whether it has been installed:
The bcl2fastq2 Conversion Software v2.18 can be used to convert BCL files from MiniSeq, MiSeq, NextSeq, and HiSeq sequening systems. For conversion of data generated on Illumina sequencing systems using versions of RTA earlier than RTA 1.18.54, use bcl2fastq v1.8.4.