How To Install raccoon on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install raccoon on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is raccoon
raccoon is:
The field of computational biology is all about modeling physiochemical entities. Structural biology is about how those entities look in 3D and behave. Assume a specific behaviour (and only this) of a drug can be changed in a defined way.
Some good part of the characterisation of promising drug-like compounds for their interaction with a larger protein can be done on computers. This package helps with getting collections of small ligands prepared to be fitted against a particular protein of known structure. That docking itself is then to be performed by autodock or autodock-vina.
Raccoon may not find the drug, but it may well find a lead to it. To have this package with Debian shall help smaller biochemistry labs and grants an opportunity for the general public to educate itself and/or actively join in to help the world …. just a bit.
There are three methods to install raccoon 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 raccoon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install raccoon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install raccoon
Install raccoon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install raccoon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install raccoon
Install raccoon 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 raccoon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install raccoon
How To Uninstall raccoon on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the raccoon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove raccoon
Uninstall raccoon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall raccoon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove raccoon
Remove raccoon Configurations and Data
To remove raccoon configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge raccoon
Remove raccoon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove raccoon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge raccoon
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install raccoon package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
