How To Install melting-gui on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install melting-gui on Ubuntu 18.04. melting-gui is graphical interface to compute the melting temperature of nucleic acid duplex

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install melting-gui on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is melting-gui

melting-gui is:

This package provides a graphical user interface for the “melting” program, which computes for a nucleic acid duplex the enthalpy, the entropy and the melting temperature of the helix-coil transitions.

There are three methods to install melting-gui 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 melting-gui Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install melting-gui using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install melting-gui

Install melting-gui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install melting-gui using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install melting-gui

Install melting-gui 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 melting-gui using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install melting-gui

How To Uninstall melting-gui on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the melting-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove melting-gui

Uninstall melting-gui And Its Dependencies

To uninstall melting-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove melting-gui

Remove melting-gui Configurations and Data

To remove melting-gui configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge melting-gui

Remove melting-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove melting-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge melting-gui

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install melting-gui package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.