How To Install libparasail8 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libparasail8
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libparasail8
libparasail8 is:
parasail is a SIMD C (C99) library containing implementations of the Smith-Waterman, Needleman-Wunsch, and various semi-global pairwise sequence alignment algorithms. Parasail implements most known algorithms for vectorized pairwise sequence alignment, including diagonal, blocked, striped, and prefix scan.
There are three methods to install libparasail8
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libparasail8 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libparasail8
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libparasail8
Install libparasail8 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libparasail8
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libparasail8
Install libparasail8 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 libparasail8
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libparasail8
How To Uninstall libparasail8 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libparasail8
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libparasail8
Uninstall libparasail8 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libparasail8
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libparasail8
Remove libparasail8 Configurations and Data
To remove libparasail8
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libparasail8
Remove libparasail8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libparasail8
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libparasail8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libparasail8
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.