How To Install tigr-glimmer on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install tigr-glimmer on Debian 9. tigr-glimmer is Gene detection in archea and bacteria

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tigr-glimmer on Debian 9.

What is tigr-glimmer

tigr-glimmer is:

Developed by the TIGR institute this software detects coding sequences in bacteria and archea.

Glimmer is a system for finding genes in microbial DNA, especially the genomes of bacteria and archaea. Glimmer (Gene Locator and Interpolated Markov Modeler) uses interpolated Markov models (IMMs) to identify the coding regions and distinguish them from noncoding DNA.

There are three methods to install tigr-glimmer 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 tigr-glimmer Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tigr-glimmer

Install tigr-glimmer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tigr-glimmer

Install tigr-glimmer 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 tigr-glimmer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tigr-glimmer

How To Uninstall tigr-glimmer on Debian 9

To uninstall only the tigr-glimmer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tigr-glimmer

Uninstall tigr-glimmer And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tigr-glimmer

Remove tigr-glimmer Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tigr-glimmer

Remove tigr-glimmer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tigr-glimmer

Dependencies

tigr-glimmer have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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