How To Install ugene 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 ugene on Ubuntu.

What is `ugene`

ugene is:

Unipro UGENE is a cross-platform visual environment for DNA and protein sequence analysis. UGENE integrates the most important bioinformatics computational algorithms and provides an easy-to-use GUI for performing complex analysis of the genomic data. One of the main features of UGENE is a designer for custom bioinformatics workflows.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ugene

Install ugene Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ugene

Install ugene 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 ugene using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ugene

How To Uninstall ugene on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove ugene

Uninstall ugene And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ugene

Remove ugene Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ugene

Remove ugene configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ugene

Dependencies

ugene have the following dependencies:

References

ugene website

Summary

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