How To Install libpwizlite3 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 libpwizlite3 on Ubuntu.

What is `libpwizlite3`

libpwizlite3 is:

This library is a dumbed-down version of the Proteowizard library. This library only contains the required features to load standard mzML/mzXML mass spectrometry data files.

See http://proteowizard.sourceforge.net/ for the original project.

This package ships the runtime library files.

There are three methods to install libpwizlite3 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 libpwizlite3 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libpwizlite3 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libpwizlite3

Install libpwizlite3 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libpwizlite3 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libpwizlite3

Install libpwizlite3 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 libpwizlite3 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libpwizlite3

How To Uninstall libpwizlite3 on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libpwizlite3 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libpwizlite3

Uninstall libpwizlite3 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libpwizlite3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpwizlite3

Remove libpwizlite3 Configurations and Data

To remove libpwizlite3 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libpwizlite3

Remove libpwizlite3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libpwizlite3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpwizlite3

Dependencies

libpwizlite3 have the following dependencies:

References

libpwizlite3 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpwizlite3 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.