How To Install python-bx on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-bx on Debian 10.
What is python-bx
python-bx is:
The bx-python project is a python library and associated set of scripts to allow for rapid implementation of genome scale analyses. The library contains a variety of useful modules, but the particular strengths are:
- Classes for reading and working with genome-scale multiple local alignments (in MAF, AXT, and LAV formats)
- Generic data structure for indexing on disk files that contain blocks of data associated with intervals on various sequences (used, for example, to provide random access to individual alignments in huge files; optimized for use over network filesystems)
- Data structures for working with intervals on sequences
- “Binned bitsets” which act just like chromosome sized bit arrays, but lazily allocate regions and allow large blocks of all set or all unset bits to be stored compactly
- “Intersecter” for performing fast intersection tests that preserve both query and target intervals and associated annotation
This package provides the Python 2 library.
There are three methods to install python-bx 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-bx 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-bx using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-bx
Install python-bx Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-bx using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-bx
Install python-bx 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-bx using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-bx
How To Uninstall python-bx on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-bx package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-bx
Uninstall python-bx And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-bx and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-bx
Remove python-bx Configurations and Data
To remove python-bx configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-bx
Remove python-bx configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-bx configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-bx
Dependencies
python-bx have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-bx package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
