How To Install malt on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install malt on Debian 12.
What is malt
malt is:
MALT, an acronym for MEGAN alignment tool, is a sequence alignment and analysis tool designed for processing high-throughput sequencing data, especially in the context of metagenomics. It is an extension of MEGAN6, the MEGenome Analyzer and is designed to provide the input for MEGAN6, but can also be used independently of MEGAN6.
The core of the program is a sequence alignment engine that aligns DNA or protein sequences to a DNA or protein reference database in either BLASTN (DNA queries and DNA references), BLASTX (DNA queries and protein references) or BLASTP (protein queries and protein references) mode. The engine uses a banded-alignment algorithm with ane gap scores and BLOSUM substitution matrices (in the case of protein alignments). The program can compute both local alignments (Smith-Waterman) or semi-global alignments (in which reads are aligned end-to-end into reference sequences), the latter being more appropriate for aligning metagenomic reads to references.
There are three methods to install malt 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 malt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install malt using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install malt
Install malt Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install malt using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install malt
Install malt 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 malt using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install malt
How To Uninstall malt on Debian 12
To uninstall only the malt package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove malt
Uninstall malt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall malt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove malt
Remove malt Configurations and Data
To remove malt configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge malt
Remove malt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove malt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge malt
Dependencies
malt have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install malt package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
