How To Install ariba on Debian 10

Learn how to install ariba on Debian 10 with this tutorial. ariba is Antibiotic Resistance Identification By Assembly

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ariba on Debian 10.

What is `ariba`

ariba is:

ARIBA is a tool that identifies antibiotic resistance genes by running local assemblies. The input is a FASTA file of reference genes and paired sequencing reads. ARIBA reports which of the reference genes were found, plus detailed information on the quality of the assemblies and any variants between the sequencing reads and the reference genes.

There are three methods to install ariba on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ariba Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ariba using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ariba

Install ariba Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ariba using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ariba

Install ariba 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 ariba using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ariba

How To Uninstall ariba on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove ariba

Uninstall ariba And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ariba and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ariba

Remove ariba Configurations and Data

To remove ariba configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ariba

Remove ariba configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ariba configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ariba

Dependencies

ariba have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ariba package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.