How To Install barrnap on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install barrnap on Debian 10.
What is barrnap
barrnap is:
Barrnap (BAsic Rapid Ribosomal RNA Predictor) predicts the location of ribosomal RNA genes in genomes. It supports bacteria (5S,23S,16S), archaea (5S,5.8S,23S,16S), mitochondria (12S,16S) and eukaryotes (5S,5.8S,28S,18S).
It takes FASTA DNA sequence as input, and writes GFF3 as output. It uses the NHMMER tool that comes with HMMER 3.1 for HMM searching in RNA:DNA style. Multithreading is supported and one can expect roughly linear speed-ups with more CPUs.
There are three methods to install barrnap 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 barrnap Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install barrnap using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install barrnap
Install barrnap Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install barrnap using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install barrnap
Install barrnap 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 barrnap using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install barrnap
How To Uninstall barrnap on Debian 10
To uninstall only the barrnap package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove barrnap
Uninstall barrnap And Its Dependencies
To uninstall barrnap and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove barrnap
Remove barrnap Configurations and Data
To remove barrnap configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge barrnap
Remove barrnap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove barrnap configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge barrnap
Dependencies
barrnap have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install barrnap package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.