How To Install mrbayes-mpi on Debian 10

Learn how to install mrbayes-mpi on Debian 10 with this tutorial. mrbayes-mpi is Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny - mpi version

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mrbayes-mpi on Debian 10.

What is mrbayes-mpi

mrbayes-mpi 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 offers a binary compiled for parallel computation with MPI.

There are three methods to install mrbayes-mpi on Debian 10. 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-mpi 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-mpi using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mrbayes-mpi

Install mrbayes-mpi Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mrbayes-mpi

Install mrbayes-mpi 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 mrbayes-mpi using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mrbayes-mpi

How To Uninstall mrbayes-mpi on Debian 10

To uninstall only the mrbayes-mpi package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mrbayes-mpi

Uninstall mrbayes-mpi And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mrbayes-mpi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mrbayes-mpi

Remove mrbayes-mpi Configurations and Data

To remove mrbayes-mpi configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mrbayes-mpi

Remove mrbayes-mpi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mrbayes-mpi

Dependencies

mrbayes-mpi have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mrbayes-mpi package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.