How To Install blimps-utils on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install blimps-utils
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is blimps-utils
blimps-utils is:
BLIMPS (BLocks IMProved Searcher) is a searching tool that scores a protein sequence against blocks or a block against sequences.
This package contains the binaries.
There are three methods to install blimps-utils
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install blimps-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install blimps-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install blimps-utils
Install blimps-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install blimps-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install blimps-utils
Install blimps-utils 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 blimps-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install blimps-utils
How To Uninstall blimps-utils on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the blimps-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove blimps-utils
Uninstall blimps-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall blimps-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove blimps-utils
Remove blimps-utils Configurations and Data
To remove blimps-utils
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge blimps-utils
Remove blimps-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove blimps-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blimps-utils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install blimps-utils
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.