How To Install diamond-aligner on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install diamond-aligner on Ubuntu 18.04. diamond-aligner is accelerated BLAST compatible local sequence aligner

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install diamond-aligner on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is diamond-aligner

diamond-aligner is:

DIAMOND is a sequence aligner for protein and translated DNA searches and functions as a drop-in replacement for the NCBI BLAST software tools. It is suitable for protein-protein search as well as DNA-protein search on short reads and longer sequences including contigs and assemblies, providing a speedup of BLAST ranging up to x20,000.

There are three methods to install diamond-aligner 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 diamond-aligner Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install diamond-aligner

Install diamond-aligner Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install diamond-aligner

Install diamond-aligner 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 diamond-aligner using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install diamond-aligner

How To Uninstall diamond-aligner on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the diamond-aligner package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove diamond-aligner

Uninstall diamond-aligner And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove diamond-aligner

Remove diamond-aligner Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge diamond-aligner

Remove diamond-aligner configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge diamond-aligner

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Summary

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