How To Install libarb-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libarb-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 fuer Mikrobiologie http://www.mikro.biologie.tu-muenchen.de/ and the Lehrstuhl fuer Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/ of the Technical University of Munich.
This package provides headers and static libs needed to link against libARBDB.
There are three methods to install libarb-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libarb-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
