How To Install openms on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openms on Debian 12.
What is openms
openms is:
OpenMS is a package for LC/MS data management and analysis. OpenMS offers an infrastructure for the development of mass spectrometry-related software and powerful 2D and 3D visualization solutions.
TOPP (the OpenMS proteomic pipeline) is a pipeline for the analysis of HPLC/MS data. It consists of a set of numerous small applications that can be chained together to create analysis pipelines tailored for a specific problem.
This package is a metapackage that depends on both the libopenms library package (libOpenMS and libOpenMS_GUI) and the OpenMS Proteomic Pipeline (topp) package.
There are three methods to install openms 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 openms Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openms using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openms
Install openms Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openms using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openms
Install openms 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 openms using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openms
How To Uninstall openms on Debian 12
To uninstall only the openms package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openms
Uninstall openms And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openms and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openms
Remove openms Configurations and Data
To remove openms configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openms
Remove openms configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openms configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openms
Dependencies
openms have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openms package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.