How To Install biosquid-dev on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install biosquid-dev on Debian 9.
What is biosquid-dev
biosquid-dev is:
SQUID is a library of C code functions for sequence analysis. It also includes a number of small utility programs to convert, show statistics, manipulate and do other functions on sequence files.
The original name of the package is “squid”, but since there is already a squid on the archive (a proxy cache), it was renamed to “biosquid”.
This package contains the header files and the static SQUID library.
There are three methods to install biosquid-dev 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 biosquid-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install biosquid-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install biosquid-dev
Install biosquid-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install biosquid-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install biosquid-dev
Install biosquid-dev 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 biosquid-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install biosquid-dev
How To Uninstall biosquid-dev on Debian 9
To uninstall only the biosquid-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove biosquid-dev
Uninstall biosquid-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall biosquid-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove biosquid-dev
Remove biosquid-dev Configurations and Data
To remove biosquid-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge biosquid-dev
Remove biosquid-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove biosquid-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge biosquid-dev
Dependencies
biosquid-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install biosquid-dev package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
