How To Install spread-phy 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 spread-phy on Ubuntu.
What is spread-phy
spread-phy is:
SPREAD is a user-friendly application to analyze and visualize phylogeographic reconstructions resulting from Bayesian inference of spatio-temporal diffusion.
There is a tutorial for SPREAD online at http://www.kuleuven.be/aidslab/phylogeography/tutorial/spread_tutorial.html
Originally this program is named “spread”. However, there is just such a package inside Debian and thus a ‘phy’ for phylogeny was prepended.
There are three methods to install spread-phy 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 spread-phy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spread-phy using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spread-phy
Install spread-phy Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spread-phy using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spread-phy
Install spread-phy 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 spread-phy using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spread-phy
How To Uninstall spread-phy on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the spread-phy package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spread-phy
Uninstall spread-phy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spread-phy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spread-phy
Remove spread-phy Configurations and Data
To remove spread-phy configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spread-phy
Remove spread-phy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spread-phy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spread-phy
Dependencies
spread-phy have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spread-phy package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.