How To Install solvate on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install solvate
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is solvate
solvate is:
For molecular dynamics simulations it is sometimes appropriate not to model in the vacuum but to have the proteins surrounded by their solvent. This program computes the location of water molecules such that the resulting PDB files become suitable for further analyses.
There are three methods to install solvate
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install solvate Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install solvate
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install solvate
Install solvate Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install solvate
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install solvate
Install solvate 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install solvate
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install solvate
How To Uninstall solvate on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the solvate
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove solvate
Uninstall solvate And Its Dependencies
To uninstall solvate
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove solvate
Remove solvate Configurations and Data
To remove solvate
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge solvate
Remove solvate configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove solvate
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge solvate
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install solvate
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.