How To Install emboss-explorer on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install emboss-explorer
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is emboss-explorer
emboss-explorer is:
EMBOSS explorer is a web-based graphical user interface to the EMBOSS suite of bioinformatics tools. It is written in Perl.
If you use the Apache HTTP server, you will at most have to restart it before using EMBOSS explorer. For other web servers, you will have to do the configuration by yourself.
There are three methods to install emboss-explorer
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 emboss-explorer 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-explorer
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install emboss-explorer
Install emboss-explorer Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install emboss-explorer
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install emboss-explorer
Install emboss-explorer 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 emboss-explorer
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install emboss-explorer
How To Uninstall emboss-explorer on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the emboss-explorer
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove emboss-explorer
Uninstall emboss-explorer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall emboss-explorer
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove emboss-explorer
Remove emboss-explorer Configurations and Data
To remove emboss-explorer
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge emboss-explorer
Remove emboss-explorer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove emboss-explorer
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge emboss-explorer
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install emboss-explorer
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.