How To Install biosquid on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install biosquid on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is biosquid
biosquid is:
SQUID is a library of C code functions for sequence analysis. It also includes a number of small utility programs to convert, show statistics, manipulate and do other functions on sequence files.
The original name of the package is “squid”, but since there is already a squid on the archive (a proxy cache), it was renamed to “biosquid”.
This package contains some tools to demonstrate the features of the SQUID library.
There are three methods to install biosquid 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 biosquid Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install biosquid using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install biosquid
Install biosquid Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install biosquid using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install biosquid
Install biosquid 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 biosquid using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install biosquid
How To Uninstall biosquid on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the biosquid package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove biosquid
Uninstall biosquid And Its Dependencies
To uninstall biosquid and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove biosquid
Remove biosquid Configurations and Data
To remove biosquid configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge biosquid
Remove biosquid configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove biosquid configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge biosquid
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install biosquid package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
