How To Install seqmagick on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install seqmagick on Debian 10.
What is seqmagick
seqmagick is:
Seqmagick is a little utility to expose the file format conversion in BioPython in a convenient way.
Features include:
- Modifying sequences:
- Remove gaps
- Reverse & reverse complement
- Trim to a range of residues
- Change case
- Sort by length or ID
- Displaying information about sequence files
- Subsetting sequence files by:
- Position
- ID
- Deduplication
- Filtering sequences by quality score
- Trimming alignments to a region of interest defined by the forward and reverse primers
There are three methods to install seqmagick 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 seqmagick Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install seqmagick using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install seqmagick
Install seqmagick Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install seqmagick using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install seqmagick
Install seqmagick 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 seqmagick using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install seqmagick
How To Uninstall seqmagick on Debian 10
To uninstall only the seqmagick package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove seqmagick
Uninstall seqmagick And Its Dependencies
To uninstall seqmagick and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove seqmagick
Remove seqmagick Configurations and Data
To remove seqmagick configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge seqmagick
Remove seqmagick configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove seqmagick configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge seqmagick
Dependencies
seqmagick have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install seqmagick package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
