How To Install massxpert on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install massxpert on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is massxpert
massxpert is:
massXpert allows the user to perform the following tasks:
- Make brand new polymer chemistry definitions;
- Use the definitions to easily perform calculations in a desktop calculator-like manner;
- Perform sophisticated polymer sequence editing and simulations;
- Perform m/z list comparisons;
Chemical simulations encompass cleavage (either chemical or enzymatic), gas-phase fragmentations, chemical modification of any monomer in the polymer sequence, cross-linking of monomers in the sequence, arbitrary mass searches…
This package ships the massXpert program.
There are three methods to install massxpert on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install massxpert Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install massxpert using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install massxpert
Install massxpert Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install massxpert using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install massxpert
Install massxpert 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 massxpert using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install massxpert
How To Uninstall massxpert on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the massxpert package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove massxpert
Uninstall massxpert And Its Dependencies
To uninstall massxpert and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove massxpert
Remove massxpert Configurations and Data
To remove massxpert configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge massxpert
Remove massxpert configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove massxpert configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge massxpert
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install massxpert package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
