How To Install python-biotools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-biotools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-biotools
python-biotools is:
This package contains utilities like biotools.align - align sequences (hybrid between Needleman-Wunsch and Smith-Waterman which is used to find the subsequence within a larger sequence that best aligns to a reference) biotools.annotation - create annotation files. The annotations can be used to create a hierarchy among the annotations biotools.BLAST - manage BLAST databases and interface with the BLAST+ standalone program available from NCBI. biotools.clustal - interface to clustalw global (multiple nucleotide or peptide sequence alignment) biotools.complement - creates the complement of a sequence, which can then be reversed biotools.sequence - various tools to deal with sequences biotools.translate - translate a nucleotide using the standard genetic code
This package contains the Python 2 module.
There are three methods to install python-biotools 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 python-biotools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-biotools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-biotools
Install python-biotools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-biotools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-biotools
Install python-biotools 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 python-biotools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-biotools
How To Uninstall python-biotools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-biotools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-biotools
Uninstall python-biotools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-biotools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-biotools
Remove python-biotools Configurations and Data
To remove python-biotools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-biotools
Remove python-biotools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-biotools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-biotools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-biotools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
