How To Install beast-mcmc-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install beast-mcmc-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. beast-mcmc-doc is Bayesian MCMC phylogenetic inference - documentation

Introduction

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

What is beast-mcmc-doc

beast-mcmc-doc is:

BEAST is a cross-platform program for Bayesian MCMC analysis of molecular sequences. It is entirely orientated towards rooted, time-measured phylogenies inferred using strict or relaxed molecular clock models. It can be used as a method of reconstructing phylogenies but is also a framework for testing evolutionary hypotheses without conditioning on a single tree topology. BEAST uses MCMC to average over tree space, so that each tree is weighted proportional to its posterior probability. Included is a simple to use user-interface program for setting up standard analyses and a suit of programs for analysing the results.

This package contains the documentation.

There are three methods to install beast-mcmc-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 beast-mcmc-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 beast-mcmc-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install beast-mcmc-doc

Install beast-mcmc-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install beast-mcmc-doc

Install beast-mcmc-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 beast-mcmc-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install beast-mcmc-doc

How To Uninstall beast-mcmc-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove beast-mcmc-doc

Uninstall beast-mcmc-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove beast-mcmc-doc

Remove beast-mcmc-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge beast-mcmc-doc

Remove beast-mcmc-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge beast-mcmc-doc

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Summary

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