How To Install seaview on Fedora 34

seaview is Graphical multiple sequence alignment editor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install seaview on Fedora 34.

What is seaview

SeaView is a graphical multiple sequence alignment editor developed by Manolo Gouy. SeaView is able to read and write various alignment formats (NEXUS, MSF, CLUSTAL, FASTA, PHYLIP, MASE). It allows to manually edit the alignment, and also to run DOT-PLOT or CLUSTALW/MUSCLE programs to locally improve the alignment.

We can use yum or dnf to install seaview on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install seaview.

Install seaview on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install seaview using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install seaview

Install seaview on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install seaview using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install seaview

How To Uninstall seaview on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove seaview

seaview Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/seaview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/0ddcfaee9fafdf17a70da3911440b4ce1e2c4c
/usr/share/appdata/seaview.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/seaview.desktop
/usr/share/doc/seaview
/usr/share/doc/seaview/seaview.1.xml
/usr/share/doc/seaview/seaview.html
/usr/share/man/man1/seaview.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/seaview.svg
/usr/share/pixmaps/seaview.xpm
/usr/share/seaview

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install seaview on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.