How To Install libncbi-wvdb3 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libncbi-wvdb3
on Debian 12.
What is libncbi-wvdb3
libncbi-wvdb3 is:
The (US) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)’s Virtual/Vertical Database (VDB) is a highly compressed column-oriented data warehousing technology developed initially to address the needs of the Sequence Read Archive (SRA). It is unique in that it builds databases from smaller parts that can function independently as documents, supports effective and efficient compression, supports encryption while remaining encrypted on disk, transparent distribution and remote access.
This package contains a runtime library for updating VDB data.
There are three methods to install libncbi-wvdb3
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 libncbi-wvdb3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libncbi-wvdb3
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libncbi-wvdb3
Install libncbi-wvdb3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libncbi-wvdb3
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libncbi-wvdb3
Install libncbi-wvdb3 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 libncbi-wvdb3
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libncbi-wvdb3
How To Uninstall libncbi-wvdb3 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libncbi-wvdb3
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libncbi-wvdb3
Uninstall libncbi-wvdb3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libncbi-wvdb3
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libncbi-wvdb3
Remove libncbi-wvdb3 Configurations and Data
To remove libncbi-wvdb3
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libncbi-wvdb3
Remove libncbi-wvdb3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libncbi-wvdb3
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libncbi-wvdb3
Dependencies
libncbi-wvdb3 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libncbi-wvdb3
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.