How To Install ballview on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ballview on Debian 10.
What is ballview
ballview is:
BALLView provides fast OpenGL-based visualization of molecular structures, molecular mechanics methods (minimization, MD simulation using the AMBER, CHARMM, and MMFF94 force fields), calculation and visualization of electrostatic properties (FDPB) and molecular editing features.
BALLView can be considered a graphical user interface on the basis of BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) with a focus on the most common demands of protein chemists and biophysicists in particular. It is developed in the groups of Hans-Peter Lenhof (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany) and Oliver Kohlbacher (University of Tuebingen, Germany). BALL is an application framework in C++ that has been specifically designed for rapid software development in Molecular Modeling and Computational Molecular Biology. It provides an extensive set of data structures as well as classes for Molecular Mechanics, advanced solvation methods, comparison and analysis of protein structures, file import/export, and visualization.
There are three methods to install ballview 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 ballview Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ballview using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ballview
Install ballview Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ballview using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ballview
Install ballview 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 ballview using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ballview
How To Uninstall ballview on Debian 10
To uninstall only the ballview package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ballview
Uninstall ballview And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ballview and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ballview
Remove ballview Configurations and Data
To remove ballview configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ballview
Remove ballview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ballview configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ballview
Dependencies
ballview have the following dependencies:
- libball1.5
- libballview1.5
- libboost-atomic1.67.0
- libboost-chrono1.67.0
- libboost-date-time1.67.0
- libboost-iostreams1.67.0
- libboost-regex1.67.0
- libboost-serialization1.67.0
- libboost-system1.67.0
- libboost-thread1.67.0
- libc6
- libgcc1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ballview package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.