How To Install mira-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install mira-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. mira-doc is documentation for the mira assembler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mira-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is mira-doc

mira-doc is:

The mira genome fragment assembler is a specialised assembler for sequencing projects classified as ‘hard’ due to high number of similar repeats.

This package contains an HTML book introducing to mira.

There are three methods to install mira-doc 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 mira-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mira-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mira-doc

Install mira-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mira-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mira-doc

Install mira-doc 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 mira-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mira-doc

How To Uninstall mira-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the mira-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mira-doc

Uninstall mira-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mira-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mira-doc

Remove mira-doc Configurations and Data

To remove mira-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mira-doc

Remove mira-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mira-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mira-doc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mira-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.