How To Install liboxli1 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboxli1 on Ubuntu 18.04. liboxli1 is in-memory DNA sequence analysis library from the khmer project

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboxli1 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liboxli1

liboxli1 is:

khmer is a library and suite of command line tools for working with DNA sequence. It is primarily aimed at short-read sequencing data such as that produced by the Illumina platform. khmer takes a k-mer-centric approach to sequence analysis, hence the name.

This package contains the low-level C++ library.

There are three methods to install liboxli1 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 liboxli1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liboxli1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liboxli1

Install liboxli1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liboxli1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liboxli1

Install liboxli1 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 liboxli1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liboxli1

How To Uninstall liboxli1 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liboxli1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liboxli1

Uninstall liboxli1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liboxli1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboxli1

Remove liboxli1 Configurations and Data

To remove liboxli1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liboxli1

Remove liboxli1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liboxli1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboxli1

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboxli1 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.