How To Install reprof on Debian 10

Learn how to install reprof on Debian 10 with this tutorial. reprof is protein secondary structure and accessibility predictor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install reprof on Debian 10.

What is reprof

reprof is:

‘reprof’ is an improved implementation of ‘prof’, a popular protein secondary structure and accessibility predictor. Prediction is either done from protein sequence alone or from an alignment - the latter should be used for optimal performance.

This package provides the ‘reprof’ command. It is only a command line interface to the functionality provided by the modules in librg-reprof-bundle-perl.

There are three methods to install reprof 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 reprof Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install reprof

Install reprof Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install reprof using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install reprof

Install reprof 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 reprof using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install reprof

How To Uninstall reprof on Debian 10

To uninstall only the reprof package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove reprof

Uninstall reprof And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove reprof

Remove reprof Configurations and Data

To remove reprof configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge reprof

Remove reprof configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge reprof

Dependencies

reprof have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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