How To Install mrbayes-mpi on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mrbayes-mpi on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mrbayes-mpi package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
