How To Install piler on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install piler
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is piler
piler is:
PILER (Parsimonious Inference of a Library of Elementary Repeats) searches a genome sequence for repetitive elements. It implements search algorithms that identify characteristic patterns of local alignments induced by certain classes of repeats.
There are three methods to install piler
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install piler Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install piler
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install piler
Install piler Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install piler
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install piler
Install piler 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 piler
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install piler
How To Uninstall piler on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the piler
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove piler
Uninstall piler And Its Dependencies
To uninstall piler
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove piler
Remove piler Configurations and Data
To remove piler
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge piler
Remove piler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove piler
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge piler
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install piler
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.