How To Install libball1.5 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libball1.5 on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libball1.5
libball1.5 is:
BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) is an application framework in C++ that has been specifically designed for rapid software development in Molecular Modeling and Computational Molecular Biology. It provides an extensive set of data structures as well as classes for Molecular Mechanics, advanced solvation methods, comparison and analysis of protein structures, file import/export, and visualization. BALL is currently being developed in the groups of Oliver Kohlbacher (University of Tuebingen, Germany), Andreas Hildebrandt (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany), and Hans-Peter Lenhof (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany).
This package contains the view - independent parts of BALL (libBALL, data directories et al., except for libVIEW) and can be installed on machines without X11.
There are three methods to install libball1.5 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 libball1.5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libball1.5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libball1.5
Install libball1.5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libball1.5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libball1.5
Install libball1.5 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 libball1.5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libball1.5
How To Uninstall libball1.5 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libball1.5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libball1.5
Uninstall libball1.5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libball1.5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libball1.5
Remove libball1.5 Configurations and Data
To remove libball1.5 configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libball1.5
Remove libball1.5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libball1.5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libball1.5
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libball1.5 package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
