Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install arb-common on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is arb-common
arb-common is:
ARB is a graphical suite of tools for sequence database handling and data
analysis. A central database of processed (aligned) sequences and any
type of additional data linked to the sequence entries is structured
according to phylogeny or other user-defined criteria.
The ARB project (from the Latin “arborâ€, a tree) is a joint initiative of
the Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie and the LRR of the Technische Universität
München in 1992.
Since 2014 the ARB project is continued by the Department of Molecular
Ecology http://www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Department_of_Molecular_Ecology.html
at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen in
cooperation with Ribocon GmbH http://www.ribocon.com .
This package provides the architecture independent scripts of ARB.
There are three methods to install arb-common on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install arb-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install arb-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install arb-common
Install arb-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install arb-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install arb-common
Install arb-common 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 arb-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install arb-common
How To Uninstall arb-common on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the arb-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove arb-common
Uninstall arb-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall arb-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove arb-common
Remove arb-common Configurations and Data
To remove arb-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge arb-common
Remove arb-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove arb-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge arb-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install arb-common package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
