How To Install embassy-phylip on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install embassy-phylip on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is embassy-phylip
embassy-phylip is:
This package is the adaptation of the PHYLIP package in which its programs can operate with the biological sequence formats and databases of the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS). The software packages adapted for EMBOSS are called EMBASSY.
PHYLIP (the PHYLogeny Inference Package) is a package of programs for inferring phylogenies (evolutionary trees). Methods that are available in the package include parsimony, distance matrix, and likelihood methods, including bootstrapping and consensus trees. Data types that can be handled include molecular sequences, gene frequencies, restriction sites and fragments, distance matrices, and discrete characters.
The EMBASSY PHYLIP programs all have the prefix “f” to distinguish them from the original programs and avoid namespace conflict.
There are three methods to install embassy-phylip 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 embassy-phylip Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install embassy-phylip using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install embassy-phylip
Install embassy-phylip Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install embassy-phylip using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install embassy-phylip
Install embassy-phylip 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 embassy-phylip using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install embassy-phylip
How To Uninstall embassy-phylip on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the embassy-phylip package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove embassy-phylip
Uninstall embassy-phylip And Its Dependencies
To uninstall embassy-phylip and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove embassy-phylip
Remove embassy-phylip Configurations and Data
To remove embassy-phylip configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge embassy-phylip
Remove embassy-phylip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove embassy-phylip configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge embassy-phylip
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install embassy-phylip package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
