How To Install libbiod-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbiod-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libbiod-dev
libbiod-dev is:
BioD is a fast and memory efficient bioinformatics library written in the D programming language. BioD aims to:
- Provide a platform for writing high-performance bioinformatics
applications in D. BioD achieves this by:
- automatic parallelization of tasks where possible for example reading and writing BAM files.
- reducing the GC overhead by avoiding unnecessary memory allocations
- Offer support for manipulating common biological data formats.
- Write clear documented and maintainable codebase.
This package contains the include files for development.
There are three methods to install libbiod-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libbiod-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 libbiod-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libbiod-dev
Install libbiod-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libbiod-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libbiod-dev
Install libbiod-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 libbiod-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libbiod-dev
How To Uninstall libbiod-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libbiod-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libbiod-dev
Uninstall libbiod-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libbiod-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbiod-dev
Remove libbiod-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libbiod-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libbiod-dev
Remove libbiod-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libbiod-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbiod-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbiod-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.