How To Install arb-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install arb-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is arb-common
arb-common is:
ARB is a graphical suite of tools for sequence database handling and data analysis. A central database of processed (aligned) sequences and any type of additional data linked to the sequence entries is structured according to phylogeny or other user-defined criteria.
The ARB project (from the Latin “arbor”, a tree) is a joint initiative of the Lehrstuhl fuer Mikrobiologie http://www.mikro.biologie.tu-muenchen.de/ and the Lehrstuhl fuer Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/ of the Technical University of Munich.
This package provides the architecture independent scripts of ARB.
There are three methods to install arb-common on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install arb-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install arb-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install arb-common
Install arb-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install arb-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install arb-common
Install arb-common 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install arb-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install arb-common
How To Uninstall arb-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the arb-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove arb-common
Uninstall arb-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall arb-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove arb-common
Remove arb-common Configurations and Data
To remove arb-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge arb-common
Remove arb-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove arb-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge arb-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install arb-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
