How To Install seaview on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install seaview in Fedora 36. seaview is Graphical multiple sequence alignment editor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install seaview on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install seaview.

Install seaview on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install seaview

Install seaview on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

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

sudo dnf remove seaview

seaview Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/seaview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/a85904b57a725f7fe923b073acd1228dd7357a
/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

References

seaview website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install seaview on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).