How To Install clustalo on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clustalo
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is clustalo
clustalo is:
Clustal-Omega is a general purpose multiple sequence alignment (MSA) program for dna/rna/proteins. It produces high quality MSAs and is capable of handling data-sets of hundreds of thousands of sequences in reasonable time.
There are three methods to install clustalo
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install clustalo Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install clustalo
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clustalo
Install clustalo Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clustalo
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clustalo
Install clustalo 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 clustalo
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clustalo
How To Uninstall clustalo on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the clustalo
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clustalo
Uninstall clustalo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clustalo
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clustalo
Remove clustalo Configurations and Data
To remove clustalo
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clustalo
Remove clustalo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clustalo
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clustalo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clustalo
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.