How To Install gentle on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gentle
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gentle
gentle is:
GENtle is a software for DNA and amino acid editing, database management, plasmid maps, restriction and ligation, alignments, sequencer data import, calculators, gel image display, PCR, and much more.
There are three methods to install gentle
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 gentle Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gentle
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gentle
Install gentle Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gentle
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gentle
Install gentle 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 gentle
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gentle
How To Uninstall gentle on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gentle
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gentle
Uninstall gentle And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gentle
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gentle
Remove gentle Configurations and Data
To remove gentle
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gentle
Remove gentle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gentle
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gentle
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gentle
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.