How To Install arb-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install arb-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. arb-doc is phylogenetic sequence analysis suite - documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install arb-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is arb-doc

arb-doc is:

ARB is a graphical suite of tools for sequence database handling and data analysis. A central database of processed (aligned) sequences and any type of additional data linked to the sequence entries is structured according to phylogeny or other user-defined criteria.

The ARB project (from the Latin “arbor”, a tree) is a joint initiative of the Lehrstuhl fuer Mikrobiologie http://www.mikro.biologie.tu-muenchen.de/ and the Lehrstuhl fuer Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/ of the Technical University of Munich.

This package provides the documentation for ARB.

There are three methods to install arb-doc 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 arb-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install arb-doc

Install arb-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install arb-doc

Install arb-doc 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 arb-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install arb-doc

How To Uninstall arb-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the arb-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove arb-doc

Uninstall arb-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall arb-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove arb-doc

Remove arb-doc Configurations and Data

To remove arb-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge arb-doc

Remove arb-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge arb-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install arb-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.