How To Install primer3 on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install primer3
on CentOS 7.
What is primer3
Primer3 is a widely used program for designing PCR primers (PCR = “Polymerase Chain Reaction”). PCR is an essential and ubiquitous tool in genetics and molecular biology. Primer3 can also design hybridization probes and sequencing primers. PCR is used for many different goals. Consequently, primer3 has many different input parameters that you control and that tell primer3 exactly what characteristics make good primers for your goals.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install primer3
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install primer3.
Install primer3 on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install primer3
using yum
by running the following command:
Install primer3 on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install primer3
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall primer3 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the primer3
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install primer3
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.