How To Install phipack on Debian 10

Learn how to install phipack on Debian 10 with this tutorial. phipack is PHI test and other tests of recombination

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install phipack on Debian 10.

What is phipack

phipack is:

The PhiPack software package implements a few tests for recombination and can produce refined incompatibility matrices as well. Specifically, PHIPack implements the ‘Pairwise Homoplasy Index’, Maximum Chi2 and the ‘Neighbour Similarity Score’. The program Phi can be run to produce a p-value of recombination within a data set and the program profile can be run to determine regions exhibiting strongest evidence mosaicism.

There are three methods to install phipack on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install phipack Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install phipack using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install phipack

Install phipack Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install phipack using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install phipack

Install phipack 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 phipack using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phipack

How To Uninstall phipack on Debian 10

To uninstall only the phipack package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove phipack

Uninstall phipack And Its Dependencies

To uninstall phipack and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phipack

Remove phipack Configurations and Data

To remove phipack configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge phipack

Remove phipack configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove phipack configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phipack

Dependencies

phipack have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install phipack package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.