How To Install libbiococoa2 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbiococoa2 on Debian 9.
What is libbiococoa2
libbiococoa2 is:
BioCocoa is an open source Cocoa framework for bioinformatics. It intends to provide Cocoa programmers with a full suite of tools for handling and manipulating biological sequences. Cocoa is a great framework for rapid application development and it is therefore often used to create innovative bioscientific apps. To speed up development even more, BioCocoa wants to offer reusable Cocoa classes that are specific for molecular biology and biofinformatics. At this time, BioCocoa offers model classes for biological sequences, controller classes for alignment, sequence manipulation and I/O, interfacing with ENTREZ and view classes that let you easily display and work with sequences in your own applications.
This package contains the runtime libraries.
There are three methods to install libbiococoa2 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 libbiococoa2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libbiococoa2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libbiococoa2
Install libbiococoa2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libbiococoa2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libbiococoa2
Install libbiococoa2 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 libbiococoa2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libbiococoa2
How To Uninstall libbiococoa2 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libbiococoa2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libbiococoa2
Uninstall libbiococoa2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libbiococoa2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbiococoa2
Remove libbiococoa2 Configurations and Data
To remove libbiococoa2 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libbiococoa2
Remove libbiococoa2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libbiococoa2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbiococoa2
Dependencies
libbiococoa2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbiococoa2 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.