How To Install cif-tools on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cif-tools
on Debian 11.
What is cif-tools
cif-tools is:
This package contains a suite of tools for the manipulation of mmCIF files.
The structure of macro molecules is nowadays recorded in mmCIF files. Until recently however the ancient PDB file format was used by many programs but that format has since long been deprecated.
This package provides two tools, pdb2cif and cif2pdb, that can convert files from one format into the other, provided that data fits of course.
Other tools are cif-validate, cif-grep, cif-diff, cif-merge and mmCQL. The latter can be used to manipulate an mmCIF file as if it were a SQL like database using SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT and DELETE commands.
This package depends on libcifpp.
There are three methods to install cif-tools
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cif-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cif-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cif-tools
Install cif-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cif-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cif-tools
Install cif-tools 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 cif-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cif-tools
How To Uninstall cif-tools on Debian 11
To uninstall only the cif-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cif-tools
Uninstall cif-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cif-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cif-tools
Remove cif-tools Configurations and Data
To remove cif-tools
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cif-tools
Remove cif-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cif-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cif-tools
Dependencies
cif-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cif-tools
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.