How to Install and Uninstall mafft Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: March 28,2024

1. Install "mafft" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install mafft on Debian 10 (Buster)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install mafft

2. Uninstall "mafft" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall mafft on Debian 10 (Buster):

$ sudo apt remove mafft $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the mafft package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: mafft
Version: 7.407-2
Installed-Size: 10852
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), perl:any
Recommends: blast2, libwww-perl, lynx, ruby
Enhances: t-coffee
Description: Multiple alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences
Description-md5: a65c32f641729a8e070bd5f7c691875a
Homepage: http://mafft.cbrc.jp/alignment/software/
Tag: biology::format:aln, biology::peptidic, field::biology,
field::biology:bioinformatics, implemented-in::c,
interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, use::comparing,
works-with-format::plaintext, works-with::biological-sequence
Section: science
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mafft/mafft_7.407-2_amd64.deb
Size: 999456
MD5sum: 28b5b63c5360f3e324482f3571274af1
SHA256: 633dc40b2386a67cd0df9de625de2c8352ddc93cd14c6b91d4d07576e4366b28