How To Install primer3 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 primer3 on Ubuntu.
What is primer3
primer3 is:
Primer3 picks primers for Polymerase Chain Reactions (PCRs), considering as criteria oligonucleotide melting temperature, size, GC content and primer-dimer possibilities, PCR product size, positional constraints within the source sequence, and miscellaneous other constraints. All of these criteria are user-specifiable as constraints, and some are specifiable as terms in an objective function that characterizes an optimal primer pair.
There are three methods to install primer3 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 primer3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install primer3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install primer3
Install primer3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install primer3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install primer3
Install primer3 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 primer3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install primer3
How To Uninstall primer3 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the primer3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove primer3
Uninstall primer3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall primer3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove primer3
Remove primer3 Configurations and Data
To remove primer3 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge primer3
Remove primer3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove primer3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge primer3
Dependencies
primer3 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install primer3 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.