How To Install autodocktools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install autodocktools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is autodocktools
autodocktools is:
This package is part of the mgltools set of Python libraries which provide an infrastructure for the analysis of protein structures and their docking of chemical compounds.
AutoDock is a well established package for the automated screening of libraries of formal representation of chemical compounds that putatively bind to a particular protein at hand. This package provides a graphical user interface that is helping with the preparation of the protein for such analyses.
The tool AutoLigand, which may help to constrain the location of the binding pocket for yet undescribed proteins, is accompanying the main executable ‘runAdt’.
There are three methods to install autodocktools on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install autodocktools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install autodocktools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install autodocktools
Install autodocktools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install autodocktools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install autodocktools
Install autodocktools 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install autodocktools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install autodocktools
How To Uninstall autodocktools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the autodocktools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove autodocktools
Uninstall autodocktools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall autodocktools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove autodocktools
Remove autodocktools Configurations and Data
To remove autodocktools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge autodocktools
Remove autodocktools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove autodocktools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge autodocktools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install autodocktools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
