How To Install phybin on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install phybin on Ubuntu 22.04. phybin is binning/clustering newick trees by topology

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install phybin on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is phybin

phybin is:

PhyBin is a simple command line tool that classifies a set of Newick tree files by their topology. The purpose of it is to take a large set of tree files and browse through the most common tree topologies.

It can do simple binning of identical trees or more complex clustering based on an all-to-all Robinson-Foulds distance matrix.

phybin produces output files that characterize the size and contents of each bin or cluster (including generating GraphViz-based visual representations of the tree topologies).

There are three methods to install phybin 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 phybin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install phybin

Install phybin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install phybin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install phybin

Install phybin 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 phybin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phybin

How To Uninstall phybin on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the phybin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove phybin

Uninstall phybin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall phybin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phybin

Remove phybin Configurations and Data

To remove phybin configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge phybin

Remove phybin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phybin

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install phybin package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.