How To Install dialign on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dialign on Debian 9.
What is dialign
dialign is:
DIALIGN2 is a command line tool to perform multiple alignment of protein or DNA sequences. It constructs alignments from gapfree pairs of similar segments of the sequences. This scoring scheme for alignments is the basic difference between DIALIGN and other global or local alignment methods. Note that DIALIGN does not employ any kind of gap penalty.
There are three methods to install dialign on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dialign Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dialign using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dialign
Install dialign Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dialign using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dialign
Install dialign 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 dialign using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dialign
How To Uninstall dialign on Debian 9
To uninstall only the dialign package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dialign
Uninstall dialign And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dialign and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dialign
Remove dialign Configurations and Data
To remove dialign configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dialign
Remove dialign configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dialign configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dialign
Dependencies
dialign have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dialign package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.