How To Install acedb-other-dotter on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install acedb-other-dotter on Debian 9. acedb-other-dotter is visualisation of sequence similarity

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install acedb-other-dotter on Debian 9.

What is acedb-other-dotter

acedb-other-dotter is:

For the analysis of biological sequences, a general principle is to compare corresponding regions between related proteins, RNA or DNA.

Dotter, as an interactive dotplot with varying thresholds, displays graphically the similarity of DNA or protein sequence to itself or another sequence.

There are three methods to install acedb-other-dotter on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install acedb-other-dotter Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install acedb-other-dotter using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install acedb-other-dotter

Install acedb-other-dotter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install acedb-other-dotter using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install acedb-other-dotter

Install acedb-other-dotter Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install acedb-other-dotter using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install acedb-other-dotter

How To Uninstall acedb-other-dotter on Debian 9

To uninstall only the acedb-other-dotter package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove acedb-other-dotter

Uninstall acedb-other-dotter And Its Dependencies

To uninstall acedb-other-dotter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove acedb-other-dotter

Remove acedb-other-dotter Configurations and Data

To remove acedb-other-dotter configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge acedb-other-dotter

Remove acedb-other-dotter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove acedb-other-dotter configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge acedb-other-dotter

Dependencies

acedb-other-dotter have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install acedb-other-dotter package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.