How To Install snap on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install snap on Debian 9. snap is location of genes from DNA sequence with hidden markov model

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install snap on Debian 9.

What is snap

snap is:

SNAP is a general purpose gene finding program suitable for both eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes. SNAP is an acroynm for Semi-HMM-based Nucleic Acid Parser.

There are three methods to install snap on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install snap Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install snap

Install snap Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install snap

Install snap 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 snap using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install snap

How To Uninstall snap on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove snap

Uninstall snap And Its Dependencies

To uninstall snap and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove snap

Remove snap Configurations and Data

To remove snap configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge snap

Remove snap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge snap

Dependencies

snap have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install snap package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.