How To Install phylonium on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install phylonium on Ubuntu 22.04. phylonium is Fast and Accurate Estimation of Evolutionary Distances

Introduction

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

What is phylonium

phylonium is:

This is the phylonium program for estimating the evolutionary distances between closely related genomes. It is much faster than alignment based approaches for phylogeny reconstruction and usually more accurate than competing alignment-free methods.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install phylonium

Install phylonium Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install phylonium

Install phylonium 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 phylonium using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phylonium

How To Uninstall phylonium on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove phylonium

Uninstall phylonium And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phylonium

Remove phylonium Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge phylonium

Remove phylonium configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phylonium

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Summary

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