How To Install metastudent on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install metastudent
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is metastudent
metastudent is:
Often, only the sequence of a protein is known, but not its functions. Metastudent will try to predict missing functional annotations through homology searches (BLAST).
All predicted functions correspond to Gene Ontology (GO) terms from the Molecular Function (MFO), the Biological Process (BPO) and the Cellular Component Ontology (CCO) and are associated with a reliability score.
There are three methods to install metastudent
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install metastudent Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install metastudent
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install metastudent
Install metastudent Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install metastudent
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install metastudent
Install metastudent 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 metastudent
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install metastudent
How To Uninstall metastudent on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the metastudent
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove metastudent
Uninstall metastudent And Its Dependencies
To uninstall metastudent
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove metastudent
Remove metastudent Configurations and Data
To remove metastudent
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge metastudent
Remove metastudent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove metastudent
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge metastudent
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install metastudent
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.