How To Install melting-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install melting-gui on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is melting-gui
melting-gui is:
This package provides a graphical user interface for the “melting” program, which computes for a nucleic acid duplex the enthalpy, the entropy and the melting temperature of the helix-coil transitions.
There are three methods to install melting-gui 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 melting-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install melting-gui using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install melting-gui
Install melting-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install melting-gui using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install melting-gui
Install melting-gui 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 melting-gui using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install melting-gui
How To Uninstall melting-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the melting-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove melting-gui
Uninstall melting-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall melting-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove melting-gui
Remove melting-gui Configurations and Data
To remove melting-gui configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge melting-gui
Remove melting-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove melting-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge melting-gui
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install melting-gui package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.