How To Install libbio-eutilities-perl on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbio-eutilities-perl on Debian 12.
What is libbio-eutilities-perl
libbio-eutilities-perl is:
The Bioperl project is a coordinated effort to collect computational methods routinely used in bioinformatics into a set of standard CPAN-style, well-documented, and freely available Perl modules. This package provides a programmatic interface to NCBI’s Entrez Programming Utilities commonly referred to as E-utilities. Namely, it provides the Bio::DB::EUtilities and Bio::Tools::EUtilities perl modules.
Entrez is a federated search engine at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) for a large number of databases covering a variety of biomedical data, including nucleotide and protein sequences, gene records, three-dimensional molecular structures, and the biomedical literature. E-utilities are a set of eight server-side programs that provide a stable interface into the Entrez query and database system at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
There are three methods to install libbio-eutilities-perl 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 libbio-eutilities-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libbio-eutilities-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libbio-eutilities-perl
Install libbio-eutilities-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libbio-eutilities-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libbio-eutilities-perl
Install libbio-eutilities-perl 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 libbio-eutilities-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libbio-eutilities-perl
How To Uninstall libbio-eutilities-perl on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libbio-eutilities-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libbio-eutilities-perl
Uninstall libbio-eutilities-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libbio-eutilities-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbio-eutilities-perl
Remove libbio-eutilities-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libbio-eutilities-perl configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libbio-eutilities-perl
Remove libbio-eutilities-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libbio-eutilities-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbio-eutilities-perl
Dependencies
libbio-eutilities-perl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbio-eutilities-perl package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.