How To Install parasail on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install parasail
on Debian 11.
What is parasail
parasail is:
This package contains a command-line aligner based on libparasail3. Parasail is a SIMD C library containing implementations of the Smith-Waterman, Needleman-Wunsch, and various semi-global pairwise sequence alignment algorithm.
There are three methods to install parasail
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install parasail Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install parasail
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install parasail
Install parasail Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install parasail
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install parasail
Install parasail 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 parasail
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install parasail
How To Uninstall parasail on Debian 11
To uninstall only the parasail
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove parasail
Uninstall parasail And Its Dependencies
To uninstall parasail
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove parasail
Remove parasail Configurations and Data
To remove parasail
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge parasail
Remove parasail configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove parasail
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge parasail
Dependencies
parasail have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install parasail
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.