How To Install plast 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 plast on Ubuntu.
What is plast
plast is:
PLAST is a fast, accurate and NGS scalable bank-to-bank sequence similarity search tool providing significant accelerations of seeds- based heuristic comparison methods, such as the Blast suite of algorithms.
Relying on unique software architecture, PLAST takes full advantage of recent multi-core personal computers without requiring any additional hardware devices.
There are three methods to install plast 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 plast Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plast using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plast
Install plast Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plast using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plast
Install plast 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 plast using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plast
How To Uninstall plast on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the plast package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plast
Uninstall plast And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plast and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plast
Remove plast Configurations and Data
To remove plast configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plast
Remove plast configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plast configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plast
Dependencies
plast have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plast package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.