How To Install science-biology on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install science-biology
on Debian 10.
What is science-biology
science-biology is:
This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to Biology. You might also be interested in the field::biology debtag.
This metapackage makes use of the packages med-bio and med-bio-dev (for development of biological applications) which are maintained by Debian Med - another Debian Pure Blend. If you are a biologist you are most probably interested in the Debian Med project which deals with biology and medicine in much more detail then the more general Debian Science.
There are three methods to install science-biology
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install science-biology Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install science-biology
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install science-biology
Install science-biology Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install science-biology
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install science-biology
Install science-biology 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 science-biology
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install science-biology
How To Uninstall science-biology on Debian 10
To uninstall only the science-biology
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove science-biology
Uninstall science-biology And Its Dependencies
To uninstall science-biology
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove science-biology
Remove science-biology Configurations and Data
To remove science-biology
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge science-biology
Remove science-biology configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove science-biology
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge science-biology
Dependencies
science-biology have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install science-biology
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.