How To Install infernal on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install infernal on Debian 9.
What is infernal
infernal is:
Infernal (“INFERence of RNA ALignment”) searches DNA sequence databases for RNA structure and sequence similarities. It provides an implementation of a special variant of profile stochastic context-free grammars called covariance models (CMs). A CM is like a sequence profile, but it scores a combination of sequence consensus and RNA secondary structure consensus, so in many cases, it is more capable of identifying RNA homologs that conserve their secondary structure more than their primary sequence.
The tool is an integral component of the Rfam database.
There are three methods to install infernal 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 infernal Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install infernal using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install infernal
Install infernal Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install infernal using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install infernal
Install infernal 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 infernal using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install infernal
How To Uninstall infernal on Debian 9
To uninstall only the infernal package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove infernal
Uninstall infernal And Its Dependencies
To uninstall infernal and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove infernal
Remove infernal Configurations and Data
To remove infernal configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge infernal
Remove infernal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove infernal configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge infernal
Dependencies
infernal have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install infernal package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.