How To Install macsyfinder 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 macsyfinder on Ubuntu.
What is macsyfinder
macsyfinder is:
MacSyFinder is a program to model and detect macromolecular systems, genetic pathways… in protein datasets. In prokaryotes, these systems have often evolutionarily conserved properties: they are made of conserved components, and are encoded in compact loci (conserved genetic architecture). The user models these systems with MacSyFinder to reflect these conserved features, and to allow their efficient detection
This package presents the Open Source Java API to biological databases and a series of mostly sequence-based algorithms.
There are three methods to install macsyfinder 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 macsyfinder Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install macsyfinder using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install macsyfinder
Install macsyfinder Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install macsyfinder using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install macsyfinder
Install macsyfinder 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 macsyfinder using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install macsyfinder
How To Uninstall macsyfinder on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the macsyfinder package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove macsyfinder
Uninstall macsyfinder And Its Dependencies
To uninstall macsyfinder and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove macsyfinder
Remove macsyfinder Configurations and Data
To remove macsyfinder configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge macsyfinder
Remove macsyfinder configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove macsyfinder configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge macsyfinder
Dependencies
macsyfinder have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install macsyfinder package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.