How To Install libclustalo-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libclustalo-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. libclustalo-doc is API documentation for library to embed Clustal Omega

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libclustalo-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libclustalo-doc

libclustalo-doc is:

Clustal-Omega is a general purpose multiple sequence alignment (MSA) program for dna/rna/proteins. It produces high quality MSAs and is capable of handling data-sets of hundreds of thousands of sequences in reasonable time.

This package contains the HTML documentation to use the Clustal Omega library provided in package libclustalo-dev.

There are three methods to install libclustalo-doc 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 libclustalo-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libclustalo-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libclustalo-doc

Install libclustalo-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libclustalo-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libclustalo-doc

Install libclustalo-doc 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 libclustalo-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libclustalo-doc

How To Uninstall libclustalo-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libclustalo-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libclustalo-doc

Uninstall libclustalo-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libclustalo-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libclustalo-doc

Remove libclustalo-doc Configurations and Data

To remove libclustalo-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libclustalo-doc

Remove libclustalo-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libclustalo-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libclustalo-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libclustalo-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.