How To Install mrs on Debian 10

Learn how to install mrs on Debian 10 with this tutorial. mrs is Information Retrieval System for Biomedical databanks

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mrs on Debian 10.

What is `mrs`

mrs is:

MRS is a complete system to retrieve, index and query biological and medical databanks. It comes with all the code required to fetch data using FTP or rsync, then creates a local databank with indices using a databank specific parser written in Perl. It can then serve this data using a built-in web application and webservices.

Searching can be done on words and Boolean queries. As a bonus you can search protein sequences using a custom Blast algorithm.

There are three methods to install mrs 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 mrs Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mrs

Install mrs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mrs using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mrs

Install mrs 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 mrs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mrs

How To Uninstall mrs on Debian 10

To uninstall only the mrs package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mrs

Uninstall mrs And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mrs

Remove mrs Configurations and Data

To remove mrs configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mrs

Remove mrs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mrs

Dependencies

mrs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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