How To Install libbiococoa2 on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbiococoa2 on Ubuntu 22.04. libbiococoa2 is Bioinformatics framework for GNUstep and Cocoa (library files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbiococoa2 on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is libbiococoa2

libbiococoa2 is:

BioCocoa is an open source Cocoa framework for bioinformatics. It intends to provide Cocoa programmers with a full suite of tools for handling and manipulating biological sequences. Cocoa is a great framework for rapid application development and it is therefore often used to create innovative bioscientific apps. To speed up development even more, BioCocoa wants to offer reusable Cocoa classes that are specific for molecular biology and biofinformatics. At this time, BioCocoa offers model classes for biological sequences, controller classes for alignment, sequence manipulation and I/O, interfacing with ENTREZ and view classes that let you easily display and work with sequences in your own applications.

This package contains the runtime libraries.

There are three methods to install libbiococoa2 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 libbiococoa2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libbiococoa2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libbiococoa2

Install libbiococoa2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libbiococoa2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libbiococoa2

Install libbiococoa2 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 libbiococoa2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libbiococoa2

How To Uninstall libbiococoa2 on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the libbiococoa2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libbiococoa2

Uninstall libbiococoa2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libbiococoa2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbiococoa2

Remove libbiococoa2 Configurations and Data

To remove libbiococoa2 configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libbiococoa2

Remove libbiococoa2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libbiococoa2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbiococoa2

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbiococoa2 package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.