How To Install show-aligns on Ubuntu 22.04

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install mummer

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is show-aligns and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Ubuntu 22.04. This guide was written specifically with a server running Ubuntu 22.04 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 show-aligns on Ubuntu 22.04. 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 show-aligns using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install show-aligns using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mummer

Install show-aligns using apt

Because show-aligns is available in Ubuntu 22.04’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install show-aligns using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mummer

Install show-aligns 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 22.04. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install show-aligns by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mummer

How to upgrade (update) a single package show-aligns using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the show-aligns, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install mummer

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install mummer

How To Uninstall show-aligns from Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the show-aligns package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mummer

Uninstall show-aligns and all its dependencies

To uninstall show-aligns and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mummer

Remove show-aligns with all configurations and data

To remove show-aligns configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mummer

Remove show-aligns completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to show-aligns package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mummer

Extra info and code examples

MUMmer is a system for rapidly aligning entire genomes, whether in complete or draft form. For example, MUMmer 3.0 can find all 20-basepair or longer exact matches between a pair of 5-megabase genomes in 13.7 seconds, using 78 MB of memory, on a 2.4 GHz Linux desktop computer. MUMmer can also align incomplete genomes; it handles the 100s or 1000s of contigs from a shotgun sequencing project with ease, and will align them to another set of contigs or a genome using the NUCmer program included with the system. If the species are too divergent for DNA sequence alignment to detect similarity, then the PROmer program can generate alignments based upon the six-frame translations of both input sequences.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install show-aligns using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the show-aligns from Ubuntu 22.04.

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