How To Install libball1.4-data on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libball1.4-data on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libball1.4-data
libball1.4-data is:
BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) is an application framework in C++ that has been specifically designed for rapid software development in Molecular Modeling and Computational Molecular Biology. It provides an extensive set of data structures as well as classes for Molecular Mechanics, advanced solvation methods, comparison and analysis of protein structures, file import/export, and visualization. BALL is currently being developed in the groups of Oliver Kohlbacher (University of Tuebingen, Germany), Andreas Hildebrandt (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany), and Hans-Peter Lenhof (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany).
This package contains the data files (force field parameters, fragment data bases, etc) necessary for using BALL.
There are three methods to install libball1.4-data 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 libball1.4-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libball1.4-data using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libball1.4-data
Install libball1.4-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libball1.4-data using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libball1.4-data
Install libball1.4-data 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 libball1.4-data using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libball1.4-data
How To Uninstall libball1.4-data on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libball1.4-data package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libball1.4-data
Uninstall libball1.4-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libball1.4-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libball1.4-data
Remove libball1.4-data Configurations and Data
To remove libball1.4-data configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libball1.4-data
Remove libball1.4-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libball1.4-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libball1.4-data
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libball1.4-data package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
