How To Install circos on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install circos
on Debian 11.
What is circos
circos is:
Circos visualizes data in a circular layout ?? ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions, and creating highly informative publication-quality graphics.
This package provides the Circos plotting engine, which is command-line driven (like gnuplot) and fully scriptable.
There are three methods to install circos
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 circos Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install circos
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install circos
Install circos Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install circos
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install circos
Install circos 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 circos
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install circos
How To Uninstall circos on Debian 11
To uninstall only the circos
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove circos
Uninstall circos And Its Dependencies
To uninstall circos
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove circos
Remove circos Configurations and Data
To remove circos
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge circos
Remove circos configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove circos
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge circos
Dependencies
circos have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install circos
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.