How To Install belvu 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 belvu on Ubuntu.

What is belvu

belvu is:

Belvu is a multiple sequence alignment viewer and phylogenetic tool with an extensive set of user-configurable modes to color residues.

• View multiple sequence alignments.
• Residues can be coloured by conservation, with user-configurable cutoffs and colours.
• Residues can be coloured by residue type (user-configurable).
• Colour schemes can be imported or exported.
• Swissprot (or PIR) entries can be fetched by double clicking.
• The position in the alignment can be easily tracked.
• Manual deletion of rows and columns.
• Automatic editing of rows and columns based on customisable criteria:
  • removal of all-gap columns;
  • removal of all gaps;
  • removal of redundant sequences;
  • removal of a column by a user-specified percentage of gaps;
  • filtering of sequences by percent identity;
  • removal of sequences by a user-specified percentage of gaps;
  • removal of partial sequences (those starting or ending with gaps); and
  • removal of columns by conservation (with user-specified upper/lower cutoffs).
• The alignment can be saved in Stockholm, Selex, MSF or FASTA format.
• Distance matrices between sequences can be generated using a variety of distance metrics.
• Distance matrices can be imported or exported.
• Phylogenetic trees can be constructed based on various distance-based tree reconstruction algorithms.
• Trees can be saved in New Hampshire format.
• Belvu can perform bootstrap phylogenetic reconstruction.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install belvu

Install belvu Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install belvu

Install belvu 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 belvu using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install belvu

How To Uninstall belvu on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove belvu

Uninstall belvu And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove belvu

Remove belvu Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge belvu

Remove belvu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge belvu

Dependencies

belvu have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libcairo2
• libcurl4
• libgbtools0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-0
• libpango-1.0-0
• libstdc++6

References

• belvu website

Summary

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