How To Install python-biotools on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-biotools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-biotools is Python bioinformatics utilities for high-throughput genomic sequencing

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-biotools on Debian 10.

What is python-biotools

python-biotools is:

This package contains utilities like biotools.align - align sequences (hybrid between Needleman-Wunsch and Smith-Waterman which is used to find the subsequence within a larger sequence that best aligns to a reference) biotools.annotation - create annotation files. The annotations can be used to create a hierarchy among the annotations biotools.BLAST - manage BLAST databases and interface with the BLAST+ standalone program available from NCBI. biotools.clustal - interface to clustalw global (multiple nucleotide or peptide sequence alignment) biotools.complement - creates the complement of a sequence, which can then be reversed biotools.sequence - various tools to deal with sequences biotools.translate - translate a nucleotide using the standard genetic code

This package contains the Python 2 module.

There are three methods to install python-biotools on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python-biotools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-biotools

Install python-biotools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-biotools

Install python-biotools 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 python-biotools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-biotools

How To Uninstall python-biotools on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-biotools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-biotools

Uninstall python-biotools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-biotools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-biotools

Remove python-biotools Configurations and Data

To remove python-biotools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-biotools

Remove python-biotools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-biotools

Dependencies

python-biotools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-biotools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.