How To Install parasail on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install parasail
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is parasail
parasail is:
This package contains a command-line aligner based on libparasail. 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 Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove parasail
Remove parasail Configurations and Data
To remove parasail
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install parasail
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.