How To Install r-bioc-biocviews on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-bioc-biocviews on Debian 12.
What is r-bioc-biocviews
r-bioc-biocviews is:
Infrastructure to support ‘views’ used to classify Bioconductor packages. ‘biocViews’ are directed acyclic graphs of terms from a controlled vocabulary. There are three major classifications, corresponding to ‘software’, ‘annotation’, and ’experiment data’ packages.
There are three methods to install r-bioc-biocviews 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 r-bioc-biocviews Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install r-bioc-biocviews using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-bioc-biocviews
Install r-bioc-biocviews Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-bioc-biocviews using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-bioc-biocviews
Install r-bioc-biocviews 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 r-bioc-biocviews using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-bioc-biocviews
How To Uninstall r-bioc-biocviews on Debian 12
To uninstall only the r-bioc-biocviews package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-bioc-biocviews
Uninstall r-bioc-biocviews And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-bioc-biocviews and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-bioc-biocviews
Remove r-bioc-biocviews Configurations and Data
To remove r-bioc-biocviews configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-bioc-biocviews
Remove r-bioc-biocviews configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-bioc-biocviews configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-bioc-biocviews
Dependencies
r-bioc-biocviews have the following dependencies:
- r-base-core
- r-api-4.0
- r-api-bioc-3.16
- r-bioc-biobase
- r-bioc-graph
- r-bioc-rbgl
- r-cran-xml
- r-cran-rcurl
- r-cran-runit
- r-cran-biocmanager
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-bioc-biocviews package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
