How To Install libarb-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libarb-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libarb-dev is phylogenetic sequence analysis suite - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libarb-dev on Debian 12.

What is libarb-dev

libarb-dev is:

ARB is a graphical suite of tools for sequence database handling and data analysis. A central database of processed (aligned) sequences and any type of additional data linked to the sequence entries is structured according to phylogeny or other user-defined criteria.

The ARB project (from the Latin “arbor”, a tree) is a joint initiative of the Lehrstuhl f?r Mikrobiologie and the LRR of the Technische Universit?t M?nchen in 1992. Since 2014 the ARB project is continued by the Department of Molecular Ecology http://www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Department_of_Molecular_Ecology.html at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen in cooperation with Ribocon GmbH http://www.ribocon.com .

This package provides headers and static libs needed to link against libARBDB.

There are three methods to install libarb-dev on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libarb-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libarb-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libarb-dev

Install libarb-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libarb-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libarb-dev

Install libarb-dev 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 libarb-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libarb-dev

How To Uninstall libarb-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libarb-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libarb-dev

Uninstall libarb-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libarb-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libarb-dev

Remove libarb-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libarb-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libarb-dev

Remove libarb-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libarb-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libarb-dev

Dependencies

libarb-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libarb-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.