How To Install mummer-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mummer-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mummer-doc
mummer-doc is:
MUMmer is a system for rapidly aligning entire genomes, whether in complete or draft form. For example, MUMmer 3.0 can find all 20-basepair or longer exact matches between a pair of 5-megabase genomes in 13.7 seconds, using 78 MB of memory, on a 2.4 GHz Linux desktop computer. MUMmer can also align incomplete genomes; it handles the 100s or 1000s of contigs from a shotgun sequencing project with ease, and will align them to another set of contigs or a genome using the NUCmer program included with the system. If the species are too divergent for DNA sequence alignment to detect similarity, then the PROmer program can generate alignments based upon the six-frame translations of both input sequences.
This package contains the documentation for MUMmer, a system for rapidly aligning entire genomes.
There are three methods to install mummer-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 mummer-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 mummer-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mummer-doc
Install mummer-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mummer-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mummer-doc
Install mummer-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 mummer-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mummer-doc
How To Uninstall mummer-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mummer-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mummer-doc
Uninstall mummer-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mummer-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mummer-doc
Remove mummer-doc Configurations and Data
To remove mummer-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mummer-doc
Remove mummer-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mummer-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mummer-doc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mummer-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
