How To Install mrbayes-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mrbayes-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mrbayes-doc
mrbayes-doc is:
Bayesian inference of phylogeny is based upon a quantity called the posterior probability distribution of trees, which is the probability of a tree conditioned on the observations. The conditioning is accomplished using Bayes’s theorem. The posterior probability distribution of trees is impossible to calculate analytically; instead, MrBayes uses a simulation technique called Markov chain Monte Carlo (or MCMC) to approximate the posterior probabilities of trees.
This package provides the manual for MrBayes.
There are three methods to install mrbayes-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 mrbayes-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 mrbayes-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mrbayes-doc
Install mrbayes-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mrbayes-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mrbayes-doc
Install mrbayes-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 mrbayes-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mrbayes-doc
How To Uninstall mrbayes-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mrbayes-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mrbayes-doc
Uninstall mrbayes-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mrbayes-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mrbayes-doc
Remove mrbayes-doc Configurations and Data
To remove mrbayes-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mrbayes-doc
Remove mrbayes-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mrbayes-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mrbayes-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mrbayes-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
