How To Install libbiojava5-java 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 libbiojava5-java on Ubuntu.

What is `libbiojava5-java`

libbiojava5-java is:

This package presents the Open Source Java API to biological databases and a series of mostly sequence-based algorithms.

BioJava is an open-source project dedicated to providing a Java framework for processing biological data. It includes objects for manipulating sequences, file parsers, server support, access to BioSQL and Ensembl databases, and powerful analysis and statistical routines including a dynamic programming toolkit.

There are three methods to install libbiojava5-java 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 libbiojava5-java Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libbiojava5-java using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libbiojava5-java

Install libbiojava5-java Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libbiojava5-java using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libbiojava5-java

Install libbiojava5-java 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 libbiojava5-java using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libbiojava5-java

How To Uninstall libbiojava5-java on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libbiojava5-java package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libbiojava5-java

Uninstall libbiojava5-java And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libbiojava5-java and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbiojava5-java

Remove libbiojava5-java Configurations and Data

To remove libbiojava5-java configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libbiojava5-java

Remove libbiojava5-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libbiojava5-java configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbiojava5-java

Dependencies

libbiojava5-java have the following dependencies:

References

libbiojava5-java website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbiojava5-java package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.