How To Install recan on Debian 12

Learn how to install recan on Debian 12 with this tutorial. recan is genetic distance plotting for recombination events analysis

Introduction

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

What is recan

recan is:

recan is a Python package which allows one to construct genetic distance plots to explore and discover recombination events in viral genomes.

This method has been previously implemented in desktop software tools: RAT, Simplot and RDP4.

There are three methods to install recan 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 recan Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install recan

Install recan Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install recan

Install recan 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 recan using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install recan

How To Uninstall recan on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove recan

Uninstall recan And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove recan

Remove recan Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge recan

Remove recan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge recan

Dependencies

recan have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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