How To Install ssake-examples on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install ssake-examples on Debian 9. ssake-examples is example data for SSAKE, a genomic assembler of short reads

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ssake-examples on Debian 9.

What is ssake-examples

ssake-examples is:

This package contains test sequences for SSAKE, a genomics application for assembling millions of very short DNA sequences.

Instructions about how to use the test data can be found in /usr/share/doc/ssake/SSAKE.readme.gz after the package `ssake’ is installed.

There are three methods to install ssake-examples on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ssake-examples Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ssake-examples

Install ssake-examples Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ssake-examples

Install ssake-examples 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 ssake-examples using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ssake-examples

How To Uninstall ssake-examples on Debian 9

To uninstall only the ssake-examples package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ssake-examples

Uninstall ssake-examples And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ssake-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ssake-examples

Remove ssake-examples Configurations and Data

To remove ssake-examples configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ssake-examples

Remove ssake-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ssake-examples

Dependencies

ssake-examples have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ssake-examples package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.