How To Install clustalo 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 clustalo on Ubuntu.
What is clustalo
clustalo is:
Clustal Omega is a general-purpose multiple sequence alignment (MSA) program, primarily for amino-acid sequences. It produces high quality MSAs and is capable of handling data sets of hundreds of thousands of sequences in reasonable time, using multiple processors where available.
There are three methods to install clustalo 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 clustalo Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install clustalo using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clustalo
Install clustalo Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clustalo using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clustalo
Install clustalo 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 clustalo using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clustalo
How To Uninstall clustalo on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the clustalo package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clustalo
Uninstall clustalo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clustalo and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clustalo
Remove clustalo Configurations and Data
To remove clustalo configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clustalo
Remove clustalo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clustalo configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clustalo
Dependencies
clustalo have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clustalo package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.