How To Install proteinortho on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install proteinortho on Ubuntu 22.04. proteinortho is Detection of (Co-)orthologs in large-scale protein analysis

Introduction

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

What is proteinortho

proteinortho is:

Proteinortho is a stand-alone tool that is geared towards large datasets and makes use of distributed computing techniques when run on multi-core hardware. It implements an extended version of the reciprocal best alignment heuristic. Proteinortho was applied to compute orthologous proteins in the complete set of all 717 eubacterial genomes available at NCBI at the beginning of 2009. Authors succeeded identifying thirty proteins present in 99% of all bacterial proteomes.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install proteinortho

Install proteinortho Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install proteinortho

Install proteinortho 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 proteinortho using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install proteinortho

How To Uninstall proteinortho on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove proteinortho

Uninstall proteinortho And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove proteinortho

Remove proteinortho Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge proteinortho

Remove proteinortho configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge proteinortho

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Summary

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