How To Install muscle3 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install muscle3 on Debian 12.
What is muscle3
muscle3 is:
MUSCLE is a multiple alignment program for protein sequences. MUSCLE stands for multiple sequence comparison by log-expectation. In the authors tests, MUSCLE achieved the highest scores of all tested programs on several alignment accuracy benchmarks, and is also one of the fastest programs out there.
This is version 3 of the muscle program. It is a different program than muscle version 5 which is packaged as muscle in Debian.
There are three methods to install muscle3 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install muscle3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install muscle3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install muscle3
Install muscle3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install muscle3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install muscle3
Install muscle3 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 muscle3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install muscle3
How To Uninstall muscle3 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the muscle3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove muscle3
Uninstall muscle3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall muscle3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove muscle3
Remove muscle3 Configurations and Data
To remove muscle3 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge muscle3
Remove muscle3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove muscle3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge muscle3
Dependencies
muscle3 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install muscle3 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
