How To Install probabel-examples on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install probabel-examples on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is probabel-examples
probabel-examples is:
The ProbABEL package is part of the GenABEL project for analysis of genome-wide data. ProbABEL is used to run GWAS. Using files in filevector/DatABEL format even allows for running GWAS on computers with only a few GB of RAM.
This package contains the example files for the probabel package.
There are three methods to install probabel-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 probabel-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 probabel-examples using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install probabel-examples
Install probabel-examples Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install probabel-examples using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install probabel-examples
Install probabel-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 probabel-examples using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install probabel-examples
How To Uninstall probabel-examples on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the probabel-examples package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove probabel-examples
Uninstall probabel-examples And Its Dependencies
To uninstall probabel-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove probabel-examples
Remove probabel-examples Configurations and Data
To remove probabel-examples configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge probabel-examples
Remove probabel-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove probabel-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge probabel-examples
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install probabel-examples package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
