How To Install plip on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plip
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is plip
plip is:
The Protein-Ligand Interaction Profiler (PLIP) is a tool to analyze and visualize protein-ligand interactions in PDB files.
Features include:
- Detection of eight different types of noncovalent interactions
- Automatic detection of relevant ligands in a PDB file
- Direct download of PDB structures from wwPDB server if valid PDB ID is given
- Processing of custom PDB files containing protein-ligand complexes (e.g. from docking)
- No need for special preparation of a PDB file, works out of the box
- Atom-level interaction reports in rST and XML formats for easy parsing
- Generation of PyMOL session files (.pse) for each pairing, enabling easy preparation of images for publications and talks
- Rendering of preview image for each ligand and its interactions with the protein
There are three methods to install plip
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 plip Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plip
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plip
Install plip Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plip
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plip
Install plip 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 plip
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plip
How To Uninstall plip on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the plip
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plip
Uninstall plip And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plip
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plip
Remove plip Configurations and Data
To remove plip
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plip
Remove plip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plip
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plip
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plip
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.