How To Install provean on Debian 12

Learn how to install provean on Debian 12 with this tutorial. provean is Protein Variation Effect Analyzer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install provean on Debian 12.

What is provean

provean is:

PROVEAN (Protein Variation Effect Analyzer) is a software tool which predicts whether an amino acid substitution or indel has an impact on the biological function of a protein.

PROVEAN is useful for filtering sequence variants to identify nonsynonymous or indel variants that are predicted to be functionally important.

The performance of PROVEAN is comparable to popular tools such as SIFT or PolyPhen-2.

A fast computation approach to obtain pairwise sequence alignment scores enabled the generation of precomputed PROVEAN predictions for 20 single AA substitutions and a single AA deletion at every amino acid position of all protein sequences in human and mouse.

There are three methods to install provean on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install provean Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install provean

Install provean Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install provean

Install provean 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 provean using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install provean

How To Uninstall provean on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove provean

Uninstall provean And Its Dependencies

To uninstall provean and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove provean

Remove provean Configurations and Data

To remove provean configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge provean

Remove provean configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge provean

Dependencies

provean have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install provean package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.