How To Install exonerate on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install exonerate
on Debian 10.
What is exonerate
exonerate is:
Exonerate allows you to align sequences using a many alignment models, using either exhaustive dynamic programming, or a variety of heuristics. Much of the functionality of the Wise dynamic programming suite was reimplemented in C for better efficiency. Exonerate is an intrinsic component of the building of the Ensembl genome databases, providing similarity scores between RNA and DNA sequences and thus determining splice variants and coding sequences in general.
An In-silico PCR Experiment Simulation System (see the ipcress man page) is packaged with exonerate.
This package also comes with a selection of utilities for performing simple manipulations quickly on fasta files beyond 2Gb
There are three methods to install exonerate
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 exonerate Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install exonerate
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install exonerate
Install exonerate Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install exonerate
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install exonerate
Install exonerate 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 exonerate
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install exonerate
How To Uninstall exonerate on Debian 10
To uninstall only the exonerate
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove exonerate
Uninstall exonerate And Its Dependencies
To uninstall exonerate
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove exonerate
Remove exonerate Configurations and Data
To remove exonerate
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge exonerate
Remove exonerate configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove exonerate
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge exonerate
Dependencies
exonerate have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install exonerate
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.