How To Install probabel 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 probabel on Ubuntu.
What is probabel
probabel is:
The ProbABEL package is part of the GenABEL project for analysis of genome-wide data. ProbABEL is used to run GWAS. Using files in filevector/DatABEL format even allows for running GWAS on computers with only a few GB of RAM.
There are three methods to install probabel 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 probabel Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install probabel using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install probabel
Install probabel Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install probabel using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install probabel
Install probabel 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 probabel using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install probabel
How To Uninstall probabel on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the probabel package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove probabel
Uninstall probabel And Its Dependencies
To uninstall probabel and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove probabel
Remove probabel Configurations and Data
To remove probabel configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge probabel
Remove probabel configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove probabel configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge probabel
Dependencies
probabel have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install probabel package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.