How To Install r-bioc-biocinstaller on Debian 10

Learn how to install r-bioc-biocinstaller on Debian 10 with this tutorial. r-bioc-biocinstaller is Install/Update Bioconductor and CRAN Packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-bioc-biocinstaller on Debian 10.

What is r-bioc-biocinstaller

r-bioc-biocinstaller is:

This package is basically created to fulfill a dependency of the r-bioc-affy package. Usually all BioConductor packages should be rather installed as Debian packages than with this tool.

There are three methods to install r-bioc-biocinstaller 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 r-bioc-biocinstaller Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install r-bioc-biocinstaller using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install r-bioc-biocinstaller

Install r-bioc-biocinstaller Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install r-bioc-biocinstaller using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install r-bioc-biocinstaller

Install r-bioc-biocinstaller 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 r-bioc-biocinstaller using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install r-bioc-biocinstaller

How To Uninstall r-bioc-biocinstaller on Debian 10

To uninstall only the r-bioc-biocinstaller package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove r-bioc-biocinstaller

Uninstall r-bioc-biocinstaller And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-bioc-biocinstaller

Remove r-bioc-biocinstaller Configurations and Data

To remove r-bioc-biocinstaller configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge r-bioc-biocinstaller

Remove r-bioc-biocinstaller configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove r-bioc-biocinstaller configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-bioc-biocinstaller

Dependencies

r-bioc-biocinstaller have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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