How To Install phyutility 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 phyutility on Ubuntu.

What is phyutility

phyutility is:

Phyutility (fyoo-til-i-te) is a command line program that performs simple analyses or modifications on both trees and data matrices.

Currently it performs the following functions (to suggest another feature, submit an Issue and use the label Type-Enhancement) :

Trees

• rerooting
• pruning
• type conversion
• consensus
• leaf stability
• lineage movement
• tree support

Data Matrices

• concatenate alignments
• genbank parsing
• trimming alignments
• search NCBI
• fetch NCBI

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install phyutility

Install phyutility Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install phyutility

Install phyutility 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 phyutility using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phyutility

How To Uninstall phyutility on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove phyutility

Uninstall phyutility And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phyutility

Remove phyutility Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge phyutility

Remove phyutility configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phyutility

Dependencies

phyutility have the following dependencies:

References

• phyutility website

Summary

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