How To Install blixemh on Fedora 34

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install blixem

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install blixem

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is blixemh and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install blixemh on Fedora 34. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install blixemh on Fedora 34 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install blixemh using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blixem

Install blixemh on Fedora 34 using yum

Because blixemh is available in Fedora 34’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install blixemh package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blixem

How to upgrade (update) a single package blixemh using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like blixemh in this example you should use the following command:

yum update blixem

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade blixem

How to Upgrade blixemh on Fedora 34 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update blixem

How To remove blixemh from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the blixemh package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove blixem

Extra info and code examples

Blixem is an interactive browser of sequence alignments that have been stacked up in a "master-slave" multiple alignment; it is not a 'true' multiple alignment but a 'one-to-many' alignment. * Overview section showing the positions of genes and alignments around the alignment window * Detail section showing the actual alignment of protein or nucleotide sequences to the genomic DNA sequence. * View alignments against both strands of the reference sequence. * View sequences in nucleotide or protein mode; in protein mode, Blixem will display the three-frame translation of the reference sequence. * Residues are highlighted in different colours depending on whether they are an exact match, conserved substitution or mismatch. * Gapped alignments are supported, with insertions and deletions being highlighted in the match sequence. * Matches can be sorted and filtered. * SNPs and other variations can be highlighted in the reference sequence. * Poly(A) tails can be displayed and poly(A) signals highlighted in the reference sequence.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install blixemh using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the blixemh from Fedora 34.

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