How To Install libballview1.5 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libballview1.5 on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libballview1.5
libballview1.5 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 parts of BALL (libVIEW). Those are required for molecular visualization and for running BALLView.
There are three methods to install libballview1.5 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 libballview1.5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libballview1.5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libballview1.5
Install libballview1.5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libballview1.5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libballview1.5
Install libballview1.5 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 libballview1.5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libballview1.5
How To Uninstall libballview1.5 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libballview1.5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libballview1.5
Uninstall libballview1.5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libballview1.5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libballview1.5
Remove libballview1.5 Configurations and Data
To remove libballview1.5 configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libballview1.5
Remove libballview1.5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libballview1.5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libballview1.5
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libballview1.5 package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
