How To Install emboss-data on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install emboss-data on Debian 10.
What is emboss-data
emboss-data is:
EMBOSS is a free Open Source software analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology (e.g. EMBnet) user community. The software automatically copes with data in a variety of formats and even allows transparent retrieval of sequence data from the web. Also, as extensive libraries are provided with the package, it is a platform to allow other scientists to develop and release software in true open source spirit. EMBOSS also integrates a range of currently available packages and tools for sequence analysis into a seamless whole. EMBOSS breaks the historical trend towards commercial software packages.
This package includes data files needed by EMBOSS, the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite.
There are three methods to install emboss-data on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install emboss-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install emboss-data using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install emboss-data
Install emboss-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install emboss-data using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install emboss-data
Install emboss-data 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 emboss-data using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install emboss-data
How To Uninstall emboss-data on Debian 10
To uninstall only the emboss-data package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove emboss-data
Uninstall emboss-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall emboss-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove emboss-data
Remove emboss-data Configurations and Data
To remove emboss-data configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge emboss-data
Remove emboss-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove emboss-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge emboss-data
Dependencies
emboss-data have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install emboss-data package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.