How To Install abacas-examples on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install abacas-examples on Ubuntu 22.04. abacas-examples is sample data for abacas to close gaps in genomic alignments

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install abacas-examples on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is abacas-examples

abacas-examples is:

ABACAS (Algorithm Based Automatic Contiguation of Assembled Sequences) intends to rapidly contiguate (align, order, orientate), visualize and design primers to close gaps on shotgun assembled contigs based on a reference sequence.

This package contains a test data set as well as sample scripts running some test suite provided by Debian also as autopkgtest.

There are three methods to install abacas-examples 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 abacas-examples Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install abacas-examples

Install abacas-examples Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install abacas-examples

Install abacas-examples 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 abacas-examples using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install abacas-examples

How To Uninstall abacas-examples on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the abacas-examples package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove abacas-examples

Uninstall abacas-examples And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove abacas-examples

Remove abacas-examples Configurations and Data

To remove abacas-examples configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge abacas-examples

Remove abacas-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge abacas-examples

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Summary

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