How To Install libpwiz-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpwiz-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libpwiz-tools
libpwiz-tools is:
The libpwiz library from the ProteoWizard project provides a modular and extensible set of open-source, cross-platform tools and libraries. The tools perform proteomics data analyses; the libraries enable rapid tool creation by providing a robust, pluggable development framework that simplifies and unifies data file access, and performs standard chemistry and LCMS dataset computations.
The primary goal of ProteoWizard is to eliminate the existing barriers to proteomic software development so that researchers can focus on the development of new analytic approaches, rather than having to dedicate significant resources to mundane (if important) tasks, like reading data files.
This package ships command line tools that include idconvert (conversion of MS identifications) and msconvert (conversion of MS raw data files from/to any supported format).
There are three methods to install libpwiz-tools 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 libpwiz-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libpwiz-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpwiz-tools
Install libpwiz-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpwiz-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpwiz-tools
Install libpwiz-tools 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 libpwiz-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpwiz-tools
How To Uninstall libpwiz-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libpwiz-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpwiz-tools
Uninstall libpwiz-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpwiz-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpwiz-tools
Remove libpwiz-tools Configurations and Data
To remove libpwiz-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpwiz-tools
Remove libpwiz-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpwiz-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpwiz-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpwiz-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
