How To Install dialign-tx on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dialign-tx on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is dialign-tx
dialign-tx is:
DIALIGN-TX is a command line tool to perform multiple alignment of protein or DNA sequences. It is a complete reimplementation of the segment-base approach including several new improvements and heuristics that significantly enhance the quality of the output alignments compared to DIALIGN 2.2 and DIALIGN-T. For pairwise alignment, DIALIGN-TX uses a fragment-chaining algorithm that favours chains of low-scoring local alignments over isolated high-scoring fragments. For multiple alignment, DIALIGN-TX uses an improved greedy procedure that is less sensitive to spurious local sequence similarities.
There are three methods to install dialign-tx 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 dialign-tx Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dialign-tx using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dialign-tx
Install dialign-tx Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dialign-tx using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dialign-tx
Install dialign-tx 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 dialign-tx using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dialign-tx
How To Uninstall dialign-tx on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the dialign-tx package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dialign-tx
Uninstall dialign-tx And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dialign-tx and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dialign-tx
Remove dialign-tx Configurations and Data
To remove dialign-tx configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dialign-tx
Remove dialign-tx configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dialign-tx configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dialign-tx
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dialign-tx package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
