How To Install circlator on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install circlator
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is circlator
circlator is:
Circlator is a tool to automate assembly circularization for bacterial and small eukaryotic genomes and produce accurate linear representations of circular sequences.
There are three methods to install circlator
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 circlator Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install circlator
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install circlator
Install circlator Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install circlator
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install circlator
Install circlator 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 circlator
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install circlator
How To Uninstall circlator on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the circlator
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove circlator
Uninstall circlator And Its Dependencies
To uninstall circlator
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove circlator
Remove circlator Configurations and Data
To remove circlator
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge circlator
Remove circlator configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove circlator
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge circlator
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install circlator
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.