How To Install chado-utils on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install chado-utils on Ubuntu 18.04. chado-utils is tools to add/extract data from Chado

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install chado-utils on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is chado-utils

chado-utils is:

This package contains several tools that can be used to extract data from Chado database or prepare data before upload. It is a subset above the Chado database schema and libraries.

Chado is a relational database schema that underlies many GMOD installations. It is capable of representing many of the general classes of data frequently encountered in modern biology such as sequence, sequence comparisons, phenotypes, genotypes, ontologies, publications, and phylogeny.

There are three methods to install chado-utils 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 chado-utils Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install chado-utils

Install chado-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install chado-utils

Install chado-utils 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 chado-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install chado-utils

How To Uninstall chado-utils on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the chado-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove chado-utils

Uninstall chado-utils And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove chado-utils

Remove chado-utils Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge chado-utils

Remove chado-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chado-utils

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Summary

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