How To Install emboss on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install emboss on Debian 9.
What is emboss
emboss 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.
There are three methods to install emboss 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 emboss 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install emboss
Install emboss Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install emboss using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install emboss
Install emboss 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install emboss
How To Uninstall emboss on Debian 9
To uninstall only the emboss package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove emboss
Uninstall emboss And Its Dependencies
To uninstall emboss and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove emboss
Remove emboss Configurations and Data
To remove emboss configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge emboss
Remove emboss configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove emboss configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge emboss
Dependencies
emboss have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install emboss package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.