How To Install primer3-examples on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install primer3-examples on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is primer3-examples
primer3-examples is:
Primer3 picks primers for Polymerase Chain Reactions (PCRs), considering as criteria oligonucleotide melting temperature, size, GC content and primer-dimer possibilities, PCR product size, positional constraints within the source sequence, and miscellaneous other constraints. All of these criteria are user-specifiable as constraints, and some are specifiable as terms in an objective function that characterizes an optimal primer pair.
This package contains example data to test the package.
There are three methods to install primer3-examples on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install primer3-examples Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install primer3-examples using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install primer3-examples
Install primer3-examples Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install primer3-examples using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install primer3-examples
Install primer3-examples 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 primer3-examples using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install primer3-examples
How To Uninstall primer3-examples on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the primer3-examples package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove primer3-examples
Uninstall primer3-examples And Its Dependencies
To uninstall primer3-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove primer3-examples
Remove primer3-examples Configurations and Data
To remove primer3-examples configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge primer3-examples
Remove primer3-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove primer3-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge primer3-examples
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install primer3-examples package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.