How To Install mothur on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mothur
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mothur
mothur is:
Mothur seeks to develop a single piece of open-source, expandable software to fill the bioinformatics needs of the microbial ecology community. It has incorporated the functionality of dotur, sons, treeclimber, s-libshuff, unifrac, and much more. In addition to improving the flexibility of these algorithms, a number of other features including calculators and visualization tools were added.
There are three methods to install mothur
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 mothur Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mothur
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mothur
Install mothur Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mothur
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mothur
Install mothur 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 mothur
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mothur
How To Uninstall mothur on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mothur
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mothur
Uninstall mothur And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mothur
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mothur
Remove mothur Configurations and Data
To remove mothur
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mothur
Remove mothur configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mothur
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mothur
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mothur
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.