How To Install arb on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install arb on Ubuntu.

What is `arb`

arb is:

ARB is a graphical suite of tools for sequence database handling and data analysis. A central database of processed (aligned) sequences and any type of additional data linked to the sequence entries is structured according to phylogeny or other user-defined criteria.

The ARB project (from the Latin “arbor”, a tree) is a joint initiative of the Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie and the LRR of the Technische Universität München in 1992. Since 2014 the ARB project is continued by the Department of Molecular Ecology http://www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Department_of_Molecular_Ecology.html at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen in cooperation with Ribocon GmbH http://www.ribocon.com .

There are three methods to install arb on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install arb Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install arb

Install arb Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install arb

Install arb 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 arb using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install arb

How To Uninstall arb on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove arb

Uninstall arb And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove arb

Remove arb Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge arb

Remove arb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge arb

Dependencies

arb have the following dependencies:

References

arb website

Summary

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