How To Install biosyntax on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install biosyntax on Debian 11.
What is biosyntax
biosyntax is:
Syntax highlighting for computational biology to bring you intuitively close to your data. BioSyntax supports .sam, .flagstat, .vcf, .fasta, .fastq, .faidx , .clustal, .pdb, .gtf, .bed files & more.
This is a metapackage depending on all bioSyntax plugins.
There are three methods to install biosyntax on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install biosyntax Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install biosyntax using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install biosyntax
Install biosyntax Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install biosyntax using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install biosyntax
Install biosyntax 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 biosyntax using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install biosyntax
How To Uninstall biosyntax on Debian 11
To uninstall only the biosyntax package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove biosyntax
Uninstall biosyntax And Its Dependencies
To uninstall biosyntax and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove biosyntax
Remove biosyntax Configurations and Data
To remove biosyntax configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge biosyntax
Remove biosyntax configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove biosyntax configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge biosyntax
Dependencies
biosyntax have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install biosyntax package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
