How To Install libpll0 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpll0 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libpll0
libpll0 is:
PLL is a highly optimized, parallelized software library to ease the development of new software tools dealing with phylogenetic inference.
Among the functions included in PLL are parsing multiple sequence alignments (MSA) from PHYLIP and FASTA files, reading Newick trees, performing topological moves such as SPR and NNI, model optimization, likelihood evaluation and partitioned analysis by assigning different substitution models to each partition of the MSA. PLL fully implements the GTR nucleotide substitution model for DNA data and a number of models for aminoacid data.
This package contains the dynamic library.
There are three methods to install libpll0 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 libpll0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libpll0 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpll0
Install libpll0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpll0 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpll0
Install libpll0 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 libpll0 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpll0
How To Uninstall libpll0 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libpll0 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpll0
Uninstall libpll0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpll0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpll0
Remove libpll0 Configurations and Data
To remove libpll0 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpll0
Remove libpll0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpll0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpll0
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpll0 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
